The Study of Ethnomusicology

Bruno Nettl is professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An internationally renowned musicologist, he is both a founder and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the author of many books.

The Musics of the World The Harmless Drudge: Defining Ethnomusicology; The Art of Combining Tones: The Music Concept; Inspiration and Perspiration: The Creative Process; The Universal Language: Universals of Music; The non-universal Language: Varieties of Music; Apples and Oranges: Comparative Study; I Can't Say a Thing until I've Seen the Score: Transcription and Notation; In the Speech Mode: Contemplating Repertories; The Most Indefatigable Tourists of the World: Tunes and Their Relationships In the Field Come Back and See Me next Tuesday: essentials of Fieldwork; You Will Never Understand this Music: Insiders and Outsiders; Hanging on for Dear Life: Preservation and Archives; I Am the Greatest: Ordinary and Exceptional Musicians; You Call That Fieldwork? Redefining the 'Field'; What Do You Think You're Doing? The Host's Perspective In Culture Music and;That Complex Whole': Music in Culture; The Meat-and-Potatoes Book: Musical Ethnography; Music Hath Charms: Uses and Functions of Music; In the Beginning: Origins of Music; The Continuity of Change: On People Changing Their Music; Recorded, Printed, Written, Oral: Traditions; The Basic Unit of All Human Behavior and Civilization: Signs and Symbols; Location, Location, Location! Interpreting Geographic Distribution; The Whys of Musical Style: Determinants In All Its Varieties I've never heard a Horse Sing: Musical Stratification; The Creatures of Jubal: Organology; How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Teaching and Learning; I'm a Stranger here Myself: Women's Music, Women in Music; Diversity and Difference: Some Minorities; A New Era: The 1990s and Beyond; The Shape of the Story: Remarks On History