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 at UCLA of the first American university program devoted to ethnomusicology. He was known for a suggestion, somewhat novel at the time, that his students actually learn to play the music they were studying.
Was a founder of ethnomusicology, the study of world music in its cultural context. He also created the ethnomusicology program at University of California-Los Angeles
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A pioneer of ethnomusicology, the study of the world's music in its cultural contexts.
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