Mantle Hood, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Mantle Hood

American ethnomusicologist

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1918

Date of Death: 31-Jul-2005

Profession: composer, musicologist, ethnomusicologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mantle Hood (June 24, 1918 – July 31, 2005) was an American ethnomusicologist.
Among other areas, he specialized in studying gamelan music from Indonesia.
Hood pioneered, in the 1950s and 1960s, a new approach to the study of music, and the creation of the first American university program devoted to ethnomusicology, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
He was known for a suggestion, somewhat novel at the time, that his students learn to play the music they were studying.