David Warren Steel

I teach music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. My wife Anne (oxsteel@cypress.mcsr.olemiss.edu) teaches at Oxford Middle School here in Oxford, Mississippi, site of the Pontotoc school prayer trial. We both enjoy Sacred Harp singing. 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. My edition of the collected works of American composer Stephen Jenks (1772-1856) was recently published by A-R Editions. Some of my work has been "borrowed" by others. You can find information about my publications, research, and other activities in my curriculum vitae, also available in a version without HTML tables.

During the month of April, the Mississippi Early Music Ensemble collaborated with three other groups in a program of music by Heinrich Schütz and his Venetian contemporaries. I also attended the Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention, where I conducted a workshop in this early American musical tradition.

Since learning about networked information systems at the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research (MCSR), I have set up a World Wide Web site and a Gopher site (now discontinued) for the Department of Music, a Web site for the College of Liberal Arts, and a Web site for Sacred Harp singing. I have written a few hints for Web authors; these have gained some notoriety on the Internet. You're welcome to enjoy some of my favorite net-spots.

Favorite Web Links

• Sacred Harp singing
• Fasola home page
• Alabama Sacred Music Traditions
• Old-time fiddler Clyde Davenport
• Early Music America
• BluesNet home page
• Afro-Caribbean Music Guide
• Today's CyberSleaze
• Library of Congress
• William Faulkner on the Web
• My brother Bob's history web page

Other Web Links

• Yahoo Music List
• Music Resources on the Internet
• The Mammoth Music Meta-List
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Music
• Usenet Hypertext FAQ's in Music
• Ethnomusicology Online
• Early Music Links
• Music from the Vatican Library
• Adam Curry's Metaverse
• NPR Home Page
• The Jargon File
• Local weather forecast (Lafayette County, Miss.)

Favorite Gopher Links

• Tupelo Weather
• The Gutenberg Project
• The OCF On-line Library
• Worldwide Library Catalogs

Favorite Newsgroups

• Newsgroup rec.music.early
• Newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
• Newsgroup rec.arts.movies.reviews

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