Bruno Nettl

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Bruno Nettl (born March 14, 1930 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ; died January 15, 2020 in Champaign , Illinois ) was a German-Czech-American musicologist and ethnomusicologist .

Life

Bruno Nettl was the son of the Austro-Hungarian musicologist Paul Nettl and the pianist Gertrude Hutter (1905–1952). Nettl first attended the German school in the Vinohrady district of Prague and received basic musical training from his mother. Because of their Jewish origins, his parents had to flee occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939 and emigrated with him via the Netherlands to the USA.

Nettl studied from 1947 musicology, ethnomusicology and anthropology at Indiana University . His teachers included George Herzog (1901–1983), Willi Apel , Charles F. Voegelin and Stith Thompson . In 1950 he was accepted into the Phi Beta Kappa . In 1953 he received his Ph.D. with the dissertation “American Indian Music North of Mexico, Its Styles and Areas”. PhD. He then obtained an MA LS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) in Library Science from the University of Michigan . Nettl and Wanda Maria White married in 1952 and they have two children, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol (* 1953), professor of modern dance at the University of Illinois , and Gloria Roubal (* 1963), therapist and artist.

Nettl began teaching and librarianship at Wayne State University in Detroit in 1953 . With a Fulbright scholarship , he went to the Musicological Institute of Kiel University as a guest lecturer in 1956 . From 1958 he worked as an assistant professor and music librarian again at Wayne State University. In 1964 he received a position as Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in 1967 became Professor of Musicology. Since 1968 he has also been part of the Department of Anthropology there . In 1992 Nettl retired, but continued to work as a visiting professor, also at other US universities.

Nettl has carried out music ethnological field research with the Blackfoot in Montana , as well as in Chennai (India) and in Israel . He studied classical Persian music in several research stays in Iran and was a student of Nur-Ali Borumand there . With a study of music among ethnic minorities in Detroit , he expanded the field of research to the interrelationship of musical and cultural change. He established the subject of ethnomusicology, worked from 1960 to 1965 as editor of the journal "Ethnomusicology", was a founding member in 1955 and from 1969 to 1971 president of the Society for Ethnomusicology . Among his students was Philip V. Bohlman , who also conducts research in Germany .

Nettl held honorary degrees from the University of Chicago , the University of Illinois, Carleton College, and Kenyon College . He received the "Fumio Koizumi Prize for Ethnic Music" from the Koizumi Foundation, Tokyo. In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Nettl was the author of a large number of articles and books. He died in January 2020, two months before his 90th birthday, after a brief illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • Music in Primitive Culture . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1956
  • An introduction to folk music in the United States . Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1960
  • Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology. 1964
  • Attitudes Towards Persian Music in Tehran, 1969. In: Musical Quarterly. Volume 56, 1969, pp. 183-197.
  • with Charles E. Hamm and Ronald Byrnside: Contemporary Music and Musical Cultures. 1975
  • Eight Urban Musical Cultures. University of Illinois Press, 1978
  • The Radif of Persian Music. Studies of Structure and Cultural Context in the Classical Music of Iran. Elephant & Cat, Champaign / Illinois 1987, revised 2nd edition 1992
  • The Study of Ethnomusicology. Twenty-nine issues and concepts. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 1983, ISBN 0-252-01039-6 .
  • The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts. University of Illinois Press, Champaign 2003
  • (Mhrsg.): The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: a ten-volume serie , Garland, New York 1998 f.

literature

  • Bruno Nettl: Nettl, Bruno . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): MGG . tape 12 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2004, Sp. 1005-1006 .
  • Paula Morgan: Bruno Nettl . In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Macmillan, London 1980. Vol. 13, pp. 118 f.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Vol II, 2, Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 852.
  • Bruno Nettl: The Study of Ethnomusicology. Twenty-nine issues and concepts. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 1983, ISBN 0-252-01039-6 , p. 411 (A Note an the Author) .
  • Bruno Nettl , in: Mervyn McLean: Pioneers of ethnomusicology . Coral Springs, Fla. : Llumina Press, 2006, ISBN 1-59526-596-1 pp. 211f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Remembering Bruno Nettl
  2. ^ Charles F. Voegelin (1906–1986) see English Wikipedia en: Charles F. Voegelin
  3. ^ Society for Ethnomusicology , website
personal data
SURNAME Nettl, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-American musicologist and ethnomusicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2020
Place of death Champaign , Illinois