PIONEER:



nationality: Dutch
occupation: ethnomusicologist/sanskritist

born: 19 May 1899, Hilversum, THE NETHERLANDS
died: 8 Oct 1963, London, ENGLAND

Married in 1925:
Cornelia (Corry) M. TIMMERS (b. ............... – d. ....................)
His brother-in-law(?) Petrus VOORHOEVE (1899-1996)

children:



PARENTS:


Father: ............ BAKE
Mother: .................

children:

  • Arnold Adriaan (b. 19 May 1899, Hilversum, THE NETHERLANDS - d. 8 Oct 1963, London, ENGLAND)
  • ....................



LIFE:



1947/48 – 1963 School of Oriental and African Studies, London

In 1958 (not fatally) hit by a tram

Instituut KERN
Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid- en Centraal Azië
Nonnensteeg 1-3
Postbus 9515
2300 RA - Leiden
Leiden University

Made recordings in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka (cylinders and tefifoon)
Documents and recordings stored at several institutions:
Instituut Kern, UCLA, Berlin, NSA

JB A/5
Biographical file on Arnold Bake
Obituary in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (BSOAS), Vol. 27, part 1 (1964) by John Brough, Professor of Sanskrit (1917-1984)
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Cambridge University
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 9DA
England
00. 44. 1223. 335112
archive@ames.cam.ac.uk

Article on A. A. Bake in: Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl and Philip Vilas Bohlman, University of Chicago Press, 1991

Article by J. Gonda in Jaarboek der Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (1963-1964), pp. 429-435


NOTES:

  • Article on A. A. Bake in: Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl and Philip Vilas Bohlman, University of Chicago Press, 1991
  • Article by J. Gonda in Jaarboek der Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (1963-1964), pp. 429-435
  • "Obituary, Dr. Arnold Bake" by C. S. Mundy in Folklore lxxiv (1963), pp. 498-501 (online)
  • "Tefifon" by Peter Czada and Frans Jansen (in: Hillandale News No. 130 of Feb 1983 (p. 169-171))






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