# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mantle-hood
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:05.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mantle-hood"
name: "Mantle Hood"
slug: "mantle-hood"
description: "Mantle Hood 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)."
tagline: "American ethnomusicologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mantle_Hood.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1918-06-24"
deathDate: "2005-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.48
  momentum:             1.428571428571429
  historical:           8.073290666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1090016/"
    handle:    "nm1090016"
sources:
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    title: "Mantle Hood"
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    title: "Mantle Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_Hood"
    title: "Mantle Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_Hood"
    title: "Mantle Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "منتل هود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_Hood"
    title: "Mantle Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_Hood"
    title: "Mantle Hood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_Hood"
    title: "Mantle Hood"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10323877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Mantle Hood"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump