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Dr. Steven Davis
Davis Unlimited Records
Stephen F. Davis is Emeritus
Professor of Psychology at Emporia State University (KS). In 2002-2003
he served as the Knapp Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at
the University of San Diego and currently serves as Visiting Distinguished
Professor of Psychology at Texas Wesleyan University (Ft. Worth, TX).
Since 1966 he has published over 290 articles and 28 textbooks and has
presented over 900 professional papers. He has served as President of
American Psychological Association (APA) Division 2, Southern Society
for Philosophy and Psychology, Southwestern Psychological Association,
and Psi Chi (the National Honor Society in Psychology). Additionally,
he is a Fellow of APA Divisions 1 (General), 2 (Society for the Teaching
of Psychology), 3 (Experimental), and 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative
Psychology).
Davis’ passion for old-time
and fiddle music developed during his boyhood in Lexington, KY where he
listened to the Renfro Valley Barn Dance each Saturday night. A subsequent
move to Dallas introduced him to the Texas style of fiddling and primed
him for the Southeaster fiddling scene that he encountered when he moved
to Bristol, TN. Since the move to Bristol, Davis judged numerous fiddle
contests in North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia. While living in
Clarksville, TN he founded the Tennessee State Fiddle Championships and
served as the judging coordinator for the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddle
Championship held annually at Athens, AL. For over 25 years he served
as Editor of The Devil’s Box, a quarterly publication devoted to the preservation
of fiddling and related old-time music. Davis Unlimited Records (DU) was
an outgrowth of Davis’ record collecting passion (the collection now numbers
more than 14,000 old-time and fiddle discs). By the time Davis moved to
Kansas in 1979 there were over 45 LPs in the DU catalog.