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Bruno Nettl
Bruno Nettl | |
|---|---|
 Nettl before 2014 | |
| Born | March 14, 1930 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | January 15, 2020 (aged 89) Urbana, Illinois, US |
| 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.
- ^ Bohlman 2020a, § para. 1.
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