David Warren Steel

I teach music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. My wife Anne teaches Latin at Oxford Middle School here in Oxford, Mississippi. We both enjoy Sacred Harp singing, as you can see from this YouTube clip. I attended Harvard College and the University of Michigan. I teach courses in music history, ethnomusicology, and applied organ and harpsichord; I am also co-director of the Mississippi Early Music Ensemble and I perform with the “Mockingbird” early music ensemble. My edition of the collected works of American composer Daniel Belknap (1771-1818) was recently issued by Garland Publications; another edition, of the works of Stephen Jenks (1772-1856), was published by A-R Editions in 1995. My organ CD Baroque Pearls was just issued on Centaur Records. You can find information about my publications, research, and other activities in my curriculum vitae.

Since learning about networked information systems at the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research (MCSR), I have set up World Wide Web sites for the Department of Music and for Sacred Harp singing. You’re welcome to enjoy some of my favorite net-spots.

My Corner of the Web

Sacred Harp singing, a form of traditional music
Department of Music, University of Mississippi
Curriculum vitae
Historic organs of Oaxaca (Sapaan)
John Wyeth and southern folk hymnody
Reviews of books and recordings
Recent performances
In memoriam Madeleine R. Steel (1921-2008)
Sanger – Steel – Warren family information
Religious freedom or hypocrisy? an essay
Mississippi flag proposal
American music links
My YouTube channel, with my first videos!
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Favorite Links

Music: Fasola home page; Ethnomusicology Online; Early Music Links; Early Music America; Instituto de Órganos Históricos de Oaxaca (IOHIO); BluesNet; Old-time fiddler Clyde Davenport; Traditional Mississippi fifer Othar Turner
Local Interest: Oxford City Guide; City of Oxford home page; Oxford Community Calendar; Ole Miss Community Calendar; Oxford, MS weather forecast (Weather Underground); Oxford at Wikitravel; L-O-U Pathways pedestrian/bicycle advocacy; William Faulkner on the Web (John B. Padgett); Square Books, Oxford’s independent bookseller; Thacker Mountain Radio, live weekly music and literary variety show; Big Truck Theater, Taylor; Fat Possum Records; Living Blues magazine; MPB Radio music and news feeds; The Oxford Eagle daily newspaper; The Crime Scene (interactive fiction from Tom Arriola)
Web Authoring: UseIT: Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox; The W3 Consortium; The Web Design Group; Good Site Design Practices; WDG HTML Validator
Reference: Google search; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; Epicurious, for people who love to eat; Library of Congress; Digital Collections; National Public Radio; The Jargon File; Spam Primer; Today in History; The Leland Report, news from the “little finger”

Warren Steel (mudws@olemiss.edu)