Bruno Nettl (14 March 1930 – 15 January 2020) was an ethnomusicologist and musicologist. Bruno Nettl was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1930, moved to United States in 1939, studied at Indiana University with George Herzog and the University of Michigan, and taught from 1964 at the University of Illinois, where he eventually was named Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology. He continued to teach part-time until his death. Active principally in the field of ethnomusicology, he did field research with Native American peoples (1960s and 1980s, see Blackfoot music), in Iran (1966, 1968–69, 1972, 1974), and in South India (1981–2). He served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and as editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology. Nettl held honorary doctorates from the University