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Mr. Steve Smith, Lecturer, teaches various courses in Mass Communications. He received his bachelor of science in Communication from Ohio University with a major emphasis in Radio and Television (1971), and his master of arts in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University with a major emphasis in regional and cultural broadcasting (1993). Steve studied Japanese language at Karuizawa Japanese Language School, Karuizawa, Japan (1983-84), and the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii (1985).
Since 1968, Steve has worked as an announcer (DJ), talk show host, program director, music director, and copywriter at nine radio stations from North Carolina to Hawaii, including WTQR and WSJS radio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1991 through 1993, he created, produced, wrote, and hosted a weekly multi-state syndicated radio show "The Appalachian Way" about the cultural music and folkways of Appalachia.
Steve has been a professional musician for over thirty years having worked in the recording industry in Nashville, Los Angles, and Hawaii. He is a finger-style acoustic guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who was the recipient of a 1975 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award for outstanding commercial songwriting. He has been a member of ASCAP since 1971 with over twenty published songs. Steve recorded as an artist and performed extensively throughout Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Tonga, Canada, and across the United States. He has been performing weekly around the High Country since 1991. He hosted and performed for Appalachian State University's Appalachian Summer concert with Doc Watson, the Blue Ridge Parkway interpretive concert series, and other regional cultural events.