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, and perform with the “Mockingbird” early music ensemble. My book The Makers of the Sacred Harp was published in 2010 by University of Illinois Press. Other books include an edition of the collected works of American composer Daniel Belknap (1771-1818) from Garland Publications and an edition of the works of Stephen Jenks (1772-1856), published by A-R Editions in 1995. My organ CD Baroque Pearls was 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
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Historic organs of Oaxaca
John Wyeth and southern folk hymnody
Reviews of books and recordings
Recent performances
Sanger – Steel – Warren family information
Religious freedom or hypocrisy? an essay
Mississippi flag proposal
My YouTube channel
My Flickr photos

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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); Pre-War Blues MP3 blog; Folkstreams, American roots documentaries
Local interest: City of Oxford home page; Oxford City Guide; Oxford Restaurant Guide with menus; Oxford, MS weather forecast (Weather Underground); Oxford at Wikitravel; Yoknapatawpha Arts Council; L-O-U Pathways pedestrian/bicycle advocacy; Square Books, Oxford’s independent bookseller; William Faulkner on the Web (John B. Padgett); Yoknapatawpha Press, works by southern writers; Fat Possum Records, "We're trying our best"; Hill Country Records; Thacker Mountain Radio, live weekly music and literary variety show; Honest Tune, the southern journal of jam; Living Blues magazine; Highway 61 Radio; MPB Radio music and news feeds; The Oxford Eagle daily newspaper
A few local blogs: Oxford Mississippi.com, sights, sounds, and stories; NMC, Mississippi law, music, and culture (Tom Freeland); King Politics (Marvin King); Eating Oxford (Liz Barrett); John T. Edge on Southern food; Pick it up, Oxford! guide to greener living (Lizzie Oglesby); Oxford Artists Guild; Music in the Hall local video archive (Daniel Morrow); Kindermusik with Jeanne (Jeanne Lippincott); 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 (Randy Cassingham); The Leland Report, news from the “little finger”

Warren Steel (mudws@olemiss.edu)