Hood, Mantle
Between 1945 and 1950 Mantle Hood studied Western music under composer Ernst Toch and composed several classical pieces. In 1951 Hood earned both his AB in music and MA in composition from UCLA. As a Fulbright Fellow, Hood studied Indonesian music under Jaap Kunst at the University of Amsterdam, where he received his Ph.D. (1954). After completing his doctoral work, Hood returned to UCLA and joined the faculty. In 1960 he established the Institute of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. Hood is the winner of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Ford Foundation Fellowship. He has extensive consultation experience with American and international agencies, and he is a former President of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He has published over twenty books and book chapters as well as over sixty articles in scholarly journals and encyclopedias. Some of Hood’s works include The Ethnomusicologist (1971, 1982), Music in Indonesia (1972), The Nuclear Theme as a Determinant of Patet in Javanese Music (1954), and the film Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana (1964).
Archive call number: Tapes 1-198, 1100-1136
90 sound tape reels: Field recordings made by Mantle Hood in Indonesia, 1956-59. Contents: gamelan, patet, and various vocal genres of Indonesia.