Bruno Nettl

(1989). Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative

Perspectives. Ohio: The Kent State University Press.
ISBN 0-87338-370-2.

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 parttime. Active principally in the eld of ethnomusicology,
he has done eld research with Native American peoples (1960s and 1980s, see Blackfoot music), in Iran
(1966, 196869, 1972, 1974), and in South India (19812). 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. Nettl was
named the 2014 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer
by the American Council of Learned Societies. In the
course of his long career as a scholar and as a professor,
he was the teacher of many of the most visible ethnomusicologists active today in the international scene like,
among many others, Philip Bohlman, Chris Waterman,
Marcello Sorce Keller, and Victoria Lindsay Levine. The
Sousa Archives and Center for American Music holds the
Bruno Nettl Papers, 1966-1988, which consists of administrative and personal correspondence while Nettl was a
professor and head of the Musicology Division for the
University of Illinois School of Music.

(1983/2005). The Study of Ethnomusicology. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-03033-8.

(1991) Comparative Musicology And Anthropology
Of Music. Chicago Press
(1995). Heartland Excursions. University of Illinois
Press. ISBN 0-252-02135-5
(1995). Music, Culture, & Experience. CHICAGO
UNIVERSITY P
(1996).
HALL

Excursions In World Music. PRENTICE

(1996). Musica Folklorica Y Tradicional En Los

Continentes ALIANZA
(1997). Africa in GARLAND PUBLISHING
(1998). South America, Mexico, Central America
And The Car
(1998). In The Course Of Performance. CHICAGO
UNIVERSITY P
(1999). Europe in GARLAND ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF WORLD MUSIC, V. 8
(2005). Study Of Ethnomusicology ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
(2010). Nettls Elephant ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

Bibliography
(1956). Music in Primitive Culture. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-59000-7.

2 Further reading

(1960). Cheremis Musical Styles. Indiana University Marcello Sorce Keller, Intervista con un etnomusicolPress
ogo: Bruno Nettl, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana,
(1964). Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology. 1980. no. 4, 567- 576.
The Free Press of Glencoe.
(1965/1989). Folk and Traditional Music of the
Western Continents. Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13323247-6.

3 External links
Department of Anthropology@University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign School of Music: Bruno Nettl

(1976). Folk Music In The U.S. An Introduction.

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSI

Native Culture: Midcentury Anthropology At Indiana, Arapaho Bill Shakespear, and Me by Bruno
Nettl

(1978). Eight Urban Musical Cultures. ILLINOIS

UNIVERSITY
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Review of Nettls 2005 revised edition of The
Study of Ethnomusicology
Finding Aid for Bruno Nettl Papers, 1966-1988 The
Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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