Bruno Nettl (b. Prague, Czechoslovakia, 14 March 1930) is a key figure in ethnomusicology and musicology. 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. Wikipedia
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Bruno Nettl 's main research interests are ethnomusicological theory and method, music of Native American cultures, and music of the Middle East, especially Iran. Professor Nettl has done field work with the Blackfoot people of Montana, and in Iran, Isra www.music.uiuc.edu/facultyBio.php?id=66
This book looks at the field of ethnomusicology--defined as the study of the world's musics from a comparative perspective, and the study of all music from an anthropological perspective--as a field of research. Nettl selects thirty-one concepts and issu www.press.uillinois.edu/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?url=/f05/net...