Richard C. Rath

Richard Cullen Rath

I am on sabbatical from teaching at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for Spring 2009 and I will be visiting scholar in residence at the Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania during the Fall 2009 semester. I can still be reached at my usual email address, rrath at hawaii dot edu.

For the curious, here are a few projects I have been working on:

I have studied and reconstructed African music in the Americas for a long time. Here are some reconstructions of African music in Jamaica in the seventeenth century based on an article I wrote in 1993.
Students at Oberlin College, Hamilton College, and UHI helped me develop a musical hypertext edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk.I have also written a book, How Early America Sounded. You can find out more about the book and the history of sound here.
Here are some history-related bookmarks.
You can find out a little more about me—including some of my music, and copies of some articles I've written—here if you are interested.

That's it for now!
Rich Rath