Bruno Nettl | |
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Born | Prague, Czechoslovakia | March 14, 1930
Died | January 15, 2020 Urbana, Illinois, US | (aged 89)
Known for | Scholarship on music of the Blackfoot people, Iran, Southern India and ethnomusicology as a discipline |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | American Indian Music North of Mexico: Its Styles and Areas (1953) |
Doctoral advisor | George Herzog |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Ethnomusicology |
Institutions | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Website | brunonettl |
Bruno Nettl (March 14, 1930 – January 15, 2020) was an American ethnomusicologist and academic of Czech birth.[1] As a central figure of ethnomusicology, Nettl's research interests varied widely. He wrote on music of the Blackfoot people, Iran, Southern India and particularly the scope and methods of ethnomusicology as a discipline. His lengthy teaching-career centered on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his many students included Stephen Blum and Philip V. Bohlman.