Ballads, A Tinker's Dozen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781973918202)

Stephen James Messenger is a retired public school educator who has taught at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. He has earned a BA from Knox College, an M.Ed from Pan-American University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Houston. Dr. Messenger's interests include investigating Mexican folk-art, British motorcycles, Dead studies, Jamband culture, and Community Music, telling and singing stories and songs, and learning and playing North American roots and Celtic music (he plays 6- & 12-string guitars, bass, mandolin, octave mandolin, banjo, saz, and bodhran). He writes escapist, darkly comedic novels, like "Z-fari", "Follet", "Deadly Affirmations", "The President and The Cockroach","Ballads, a Tinker's Dozen", and "Bedagiskwedawajokzeloumsen A Dragon's Journey" and has edited and co-written a peer-reviewed textbook, Community Music Today (with Veblen, Silverman, and Eliot) along with numerous scholarly articles and chapters in academic journals.