Bruno Nettl

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Bruno Nettl (b. Prague, Czechoslovakia, 14 March 1930) is an active ethnomusicologist and musicologist.

Bruno Nettl was born in Czechoslovakia in 1930, moved to United States in 1939, studied at Indiana University and the University of Michigan, and has taught since 1964 at the University of Illinois, where he is Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, continuing to teach part-time. Active principally in the field of ethnomusicology, he has done field research with Native American peoples (1960s and 1980s, see Blackfoot music), in Iran (1966, 1968-69, 1972, 1974), and in South India (1981-2). He has served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and as editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology. Nettl holds honorary doctorates from the University of Illinois, Carleton College, Kenyon College, and the University of Chicago. He is a recipient of the Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[edit] Bibliography

• (1956). Music in Primitive Culture. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-59000-7.
• (1965/1989). Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-323247-6.
• (1989). Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives. Ohio: The Kent State University Press. ISBN 0-87338-370-2.
• (1983/2005). The Study of Ethnomusicology. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-03033-8.
• (1995). "Heartland Excursions". University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02135-5

[edit] External links

• Department of Anthropology@University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Music: Bruno Nettl
• Native Culture: Midcentury Anthropology At Indiana, Arapaho Bill Shakespear, and Me by Bruno Nettl
• Review of Nettl's 2005 revised edition of "The Study of Ethnomusicology"