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Bruno Nettl was
born in Prague, received his PhD at Indiana University, and spent
most of his career teaching at the University of Illinois, where
he is now professor emeritus of music and anthropology. He has served
as visiting professor at several universities, including Nothwestern
in 1993. His main research interests have been ethnomusicological
theory and method, music of Native American cultures, and classical
music of Iran. He has been concerned in recent years with the study
of improvisatory musics, and with the intellectual history of ethnomusicology.
Among his books, the following are recent: Blackfoot Musical Thought:
Comparative Perspectives (1989), Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological
Reflections on Schools of Music (1995), The Study of Ethnomusicology
(rev. ed. 2005); and Encounters in Ethnomusicology (2002), a professional
memoir. He has served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology
and editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology. He is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently holds a Mellon
Foundation Emeritus Fellowship for studies in the history of ethnomusicology,
the subject of a retrospective and prospective collection of essays
to be published in September 2010 and titled Nettl's Elephant: On
the History of Ethnomusicology (University of Illinois Press). |
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Michael Beckerman, Department of Music, New York
University
Michael Beckerman is a scholar, lecturer and educator. He has written
several books on Czech topics, including, most recently, New Worlds
of Dvořák (W.W.
Norton, 2003); Janáček and
His World (Princeton, 2003); and Martinů’s
Mysterious Accident (Pendragon, 2007) and written articles on such
topics as Czechness, Dvořák
and Schubert, Antarctic music, marketing Gypsiness, Don Giovanni,
Salamone Rossi’s Songs of Solomon, Janáček
and Kundera, and also on Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Arthur
Sullivan. He is a co-founder of
OREL, an organization devoted to the study of music by composers
whose careers were destroyed or irrevocably altered by the Second
World War, and is at present working on a book and documentary about
the last composition written in the Terezín concentration camp by
Gideon Klein, and also on a project on music and the idyllic. He
has written frequently for the New York Times, has appeared numerous
times on PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center, and has lectured throughout
North America, Europe and Asia. A recipient of the Janáček
Medal from the Czech Ministry of Culture, he is also a laureate
of the Czech Music Council and has twice received the ASCAP Deems
Taylor Award for his work on Dvořák.
He is currently the Caroll and Milton Petrie Professor and Chair
of Music at New York University. |
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