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Bruno Nettl

| birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia | death_date = | death_place = Urbana, Illinois, US | known_for = Scholarship on music of the Blackfoot people, Iran, Southern India and ethnomusicology as a discipline | alma_mater = | thesis_title = American Indian Music North of Mexico: Its Styles and Areas | thesis_year = 1953 | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/openview/438c2ac2f5e66e41871cccecbe64b9d7/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y | doctoral_advisor = George Herzog | workplaces = University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | discipline = Ethnomusicology | website = }}

Bruno Nettl (March 14, 1930 – January 15, 2020) was an American ethnomusicologist and academic of Czech birth. A central figure of ethnomusicology, he was among the discipline's most influential scholars. 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. Provided by Wikipedia