Steven F. Brown

Steven F. Brown, professor of music, came to the University of Mississippi in July 1999 and served as department chair until 2005. He currently serves as associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts. He previously served as chair of the department of music at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. Highly regarded for his work with college and university choral ensembles, Brown has served as a choral clinician and adjudicator throughout the midwestern and southwestern states. He is the author of several articles in the fields of music perception and instruction, published in the CRME Bulletin, Update, and Journal of Research in Music Education. He is co-author of the MENC publication What Works: Instructional Strategies for the Music Classroom, and he is presently completing a text for introductory music education courses. He recently presented papers at the sixteenth annual National Conference of Academic Chairpersons and the tenth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, and collaborated on a paper "Use of Self-Paced Computer Assisted Learning Modules in Music Appreciation" at the 1998 Mid-South Instructional Technologies Conference at Middle Tennessee State University.