Richard Cullen Rath
- I teach
history at the
University of Hawai'i.
- You might be
interested in my
book, How Early
America Sounded.
- I play
music, varying from punk to ambient to alternative.
- I take
care of Way.Net when I have the time.
- With
the help of
students, I have
created a digital edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's classic, The Souls of Black Folk.
It includes the
music at the head of each chapter along with an analysis of it, a key
to
understanding the book.
- I wrote an
article on DuBois's
philosophy of
history (pdf) that he used in Souls of Black Folk.
- A lot of people
come to way.net to read
my article
on the creolization of African music in South Carolina in the
eighteenth
century, "Drums and
Power."
- Or maybe you would
like to
read another article, this one on African
music in
seventeenth century Jamaica (pdf).
- Every
once in a while, I
post my
collection of history
bookmarks
if you are interested.
- I built a
hypertext guide
to pidgin
and creole studies in 1993 that I might come back to and
update at some
point. I made it on an old hypertext program called Maxthink
before the WWW
really existed...at least the html part of it. I then converted it
using a
program called SNR
that is
pretty cool once you figure it out. Beware, the hypertext is sort of
confusing
in a first year graduate student obfuscating kind of way.
- If you are
interested
in such things you can download DOS verion of an explanation of Noam
Chomsky's minimalist
program from about the same time that was too complex to
translate into
html. To run the system, unpack the files in a new directory, open a
dos (run
"cmd" in windoze xp) box in the directory and type HYGEN from the
directory that the files are in. Then type L to begin, use arrow keys
to
navigate.
- Finally, you can contact
me via
way.net's contact page.