Bruno Nettl

Bruno Nettl ( born March 14, 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia ) is an American musicologist and ethnomusicologist.

Life

Bruno Nettl is the son of the musicologist Paul Nettl and the pianist Gertrude Hutter ( 1905-1952 ). Nettl first attended the German School in Prague's Vinohrady district received a musical education from his mother. His parents had to flee in 1939 from occupied Czechoslovakia and emigrated with him through the Netherlands to the United States.

Nettl studied from 1947 musicology, ethnomusicology and anthropology at Indiana University. His teachers included George Duke (1901-1983), Willi Apel, Charles F. Voegelin and Stith Thompson. In 1950 he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa. In 1953 he received his doctorate with the dissertation " American Indian Music North of Mexico, Its Styles and Areas". He then gained another M. A. in library science at the University of Michigan. Wanda Nettl and Mary White married in 1952, they have two children, Rebecca Nettl - Fiol ( b. 1953 ), professor of modern dance at the University of Illinois, and Gloria Roubal (* 1963), therapist and artist.

Nettl started in 1953 with a librarian and teaching at Wayne State University in Detroit. With a Fulbright Scholarship, he went in 1956 as a guest lecturer at the Musicological Institute of the University of Kiel. From 1958 he worked as an Assistant Professor and Music Librarian again at Wayne State University. In 1964 he obtained a position as an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign in 1967 and appointed professor. Since 1968 he was also there for the Department of Anthropology. Nettl 1992 became Professor Emeritus, but continued to work as a visiting professor, at other U.S. universities.

Nettl has ethnomusicological field research at the Blackfoot people in Montana made ​​, as well as in Chennai and in Israel. He studied the classical Persian music in several research stays where he was a pupil of only Ali Borumand. With a study of the music of ethnic minorities in Detroit, he expanded the field of research on the interaction of musical and cultural change. He established the tray ethnomusicology, worked from 1960 to 1965 as editor of the journal ' Ethnomusicology, " 1955 was a founding member and 1969-1971 President of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Among his students was the exploratory well in Germany Philip Bohlman.

Nettl an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, of Carleton College and Kenyon College. He received the " Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology" the Koizumi Foundation, Tokyo.

Nettl is the author of a number of articles and books.

Writings (selection )

• Music in primitive culture. Harvard Univiversity Press, Cambridge 1956
• An introduction to folk music in the United States. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1960
• The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts. University of Illinois Press, Champaign 2003