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By Nolan Vallier, Adriana Cuervo, and Elizabeth Hartman
Collection Overview
Title: Bruno Nettl Papers, 1949-2010
ID: 12/5/39
Primary Creator: Nettl, Bruno (1930-2020)
Extent: 20.75 cubic feet
Arrangement:
The Bruno Nettl Papers were initially arranged into two distinct Series: Series 1) Correspondence and Series 2) Sound Recordings in 2006. After restrictions on the collection were lifted in 2009 and additional materials were acquired from Bruno Nettl in 2013, the papers were re-arranged keeping the original order of the 2006 arrangement in tact. All materials recevied after 2013 were arranged either chronologically or alphabetically. The 2019 arrangement partitioned the papers into four distinct series: Series 1: Administrative Records, Series 2: Correspondence, Series 3: Research, and Series 4: Sound Recordings. A fifth series was created with the 2021 addition: Series 5: Recognition and Photographs.
Series 1: Administrative Records is arranged into two sub-series: 1) University of Illinois Musicology Department Files and 2) Course Files for Musicology Courses, Anthropology Courses, and Other University Residencies. Starting with the 2019 acquisition, Subseries 1 and 2 are arranged chronologically when possible and alphabetically by subject when not.
Series 2: Correspondence is arranged into three sub-series: 1) Administrative Correspondence, 2) Professional Organization and Committee Correspondence, and 3) Personal and Research Correspondence. Subseries 1) Administrative Correspondence was arranged alphabetically in 2013. Subseries 3) Personal and Research Correspondence was arranged chronologically.
Series 3: Research is arranged into three sub-series: 1) Writings, Lectures, and Grant Applications, 2) Field Notes, Transcriptions, and Primary Research Materials, and 3) Secondary Sources and Annotations. Starting with the 2019 arrangment, Subseries 1 and 2 were arranged chronologically and Subseries 3 was arranged alphabetically by author's last name and chronologically by publication date when necessary. The 2021 addition follows the 2019 arrangement, with the addition of two further sub-series: 4) George Herzog Project (1928-1999) and 5) Paul Nettl Papers. Sub-series 4 is arranged alphabetically by name, and sub-series 5 is arranged chronologically.
Series 4: Sound Recordings is arranged chronologically and by collection and tape number therein. All undated tapes have been arranged alphabetically by subject. The sound recordings acquired in 2021 were arranged into three sub-series: 1) Field Recordings and Research, 2) Demonstrations, Lectures, and Example Recordings, and 3) Commercial Recordings. Sub-series 1 and 2 were arranged chronologically, and by collection and tape number where applicable, with undated tapes arranged alphabetically by title. Sub-series 3 is arranged alphabetically by performer.
Series 5: Recognition and Photographs is arranged into two sub-series: 1) Diplomas, Awards and Honorary Degrees and 2) Photographs. Subseries 1 and 2 were arranged chronologically.
Date Acquired: 01/13/2006. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Champaign, Illinois, Ethnography, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, Folk music, Folk music - Instruction and study, Folk music - Music teachers, Indian Dance, Indians of North America -- Music, Music, Music, School of, Music -- India, Music - Instruction and study, Music -- Iran, Music -- Montana, Music -- Native American, Tehran, Iran, World Music
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English, Persian, Persian, Spanish;Castilian, German, Czech, Korean, Italian, Chinese
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of administrative records, correspondence, published and unpublished research, and field recordings of Bruno Nettl while a professor of Musicology for the University of Illinois School of Music. The papers document Nettl's career as a teacher, administrator and internationally recognized researcher. Of particular interest is correspondence between Dr. Nettl and other renowned musicologists including Gerard Behauge, Stephen Blum, Philip Bohlman, Charles Hamm, Daniel Neuman, Stephen Slawek, Theodore Solis, Christopher Waterman, and Robert Witmer. In addition, these papers contain his field notes, field recordings, and melodic transcriptions from his three main research inquiries: the Blackfoot Native Americans, Persian Classical Music, and Indian Music. Additional areas of interest documented in The 2021 addition to the collection are Nettl's engagement with the work of other renowned musicologists Paul Nettl this father) and George Herzog, and the international commercial recordings collected by Nettl through his research.
Biographical Note
Bruno Nettl (1930-2020) was born March 14, 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is the son of the late musicologist Paul Nettl, who taught at Indiana University from 1946-1964. After emigrating to the United States at the age of nine, he began studying music. In 1950, he graduated from Indiana University with a bachelors degree in music. In 1951, he wrote his master's thesis entitled, "The Musical Culture of the Arapaho." Nettl completed his doctoral studies with the eminent musicologist, George Herzog, and graduated with a PhD in musicology from Indiana University just two years later. His dissertation, "American Indian Music North of Mexico: It's Styles and Areas," would later be expanded in several articles and books on Native American musics. After receiving his first faculty position as a musicologist at Wayne State University in 1953, Dr. Nettl received a Fulbright Lectureship at the University of Kiel in Germany in 1956. Four years later, Dr. Nettl received a master's degree in library and information science at the University of Michigan.
In 1964, Dr. Nettl was hired as an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Illinois. After being promoted to Professor of Musicology and Anthropology in 1967, he served as the head of the musicology department at Illinois from 1966-1968, 1969-1972, 1975-1977, 1982-1985, and 1987-1989. Dr. Nettl was instrumental in establishing a curriculum for the discipline of Ethnomusicology and his early courses at the University of Illinois show the interdisciplinary nature of his design. He offered a year-long survey in world musics as well as specific area studies geared toward graduate and undergraduate students. During his time at the University of Illinois, he served as the dissertation advisor to several important musicologists including: Stephen Blum, Philip Bohlman, Doris Dyen, Martha Ellen Davis, Marcello Sorce Keller, Daniel Neuman, Ronald Riddle, Ali Jihad Racy, Stephen Slawek, Theodore Solis, Christopher Waterman, and Robert Witmer. In 1992, he became Professor Emeritus and began teaching part-time. In 2000, Dr. Nettl and his wife, Wanda, endowed an annual lecture series featuring the work of eminent musicologists at the University of Illinois. Some of the participants of this lecture series include: Philip Bohlman, Pamela Potter, Thomas Turino, Martin Stokes, Jeff Todd Titon, Portia Maultsby, Alejando Madrid, and Kay Kauffman Shelemay.
Dr. Nettl's research includes three principal areas: Blackfoot Native American Music, Persian Classical Music (Radifs), and South Indian Music (Carnatic Music). Principally, his field research took place in Montana, Tehran, Jerusalem, and Madras between 1965 and 1982. In 1965 he began conducting research on various Blackfoot reservations in Montana. His research on the Blackfoot People would also bring him the Museum of the Southwest in 1984, where he consulted hundreds of early audio recordings of Blackfoot music. In 1966, he received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to conduct research in Iran. While in Tehran, he studied with the eminent Iranian pedagog Nur Ali Borumand. In the early 1970s, Nettl continued his research on Persian Radifs in Jerusalem, examining audio recordings at the Lachman Collection. His research on Blackfoot and Iranian music resulted in two of his most famous ethnographies: The Radif of Persian Music: Studies of Structure and Cultural Context (1987) and Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparitive Perspectives (1989). In addition to these two primary research interests, he has written extensively about the history of the discipline of Ethnomusicology. His work on this subject includes the following books: Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology (1964), The Study of Ethnomusicology: 29 Issues and Concepts (1983), Encounters in Ethnomusicology, a Memoir (2002), The Study of Ethnomusicology: 31 Issues and Concepts (2005), and Nettl's Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology (2010). Dr. Nettl has also written and edited several editions of the popular world music survey Excursions in World Music (1992-2012) and has written several definitions related to his world music research for Oxford New Grove Dictionary of Music as well as The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
Dr. Nettl has served on numerous national and international councils related to ethnomusicology and folk music. In 1961, he became the editor of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Journal, Ethnomusicology. The Society for Ethnomusicology had been founded only six years prior to his engagement as editor. He would later serve as the society's president from 1969-1971 and as editor of the journal once more from 1985-1989 and from 1998-2002. In 1983, he was awarded the Charles Seeger Lecturer Prize and in 2005 the Society awarded him a lifetime service award as well as the title of "Board Member Emeritus." Since 2012, the Society for Ethnomusicology has offered the Bruno Nettl Prize for historical studies on the field of Ethnomusicology. Beginning in 1972, he served as the general editor for the Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography (DSMB). Between 1974-1977, he served as the editor to the Journal Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council. He has also served on the editorial boards for the Harvard Dictionary of Music, The Garland Encylcopedia of World Music, and Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. He became a member of the Executive Board of the College Music Society in 1977 and served until 1981. In 1985, he acted as the Spivacke Consultant to the Music Division of the Library of Congress. He also served on the Board of the International Society for Music Educators (ISME) In the early 1990s.
Dr. Nettl has also won several major awards for his research and his contributions to the field of Ethnomusicology. In 1981 he was named a fellow of the American Insititute for Indian Studies and a Senior Fellow for Independent Study and Research. Most recently in 2009, he received a Mellon Distinguished Emeritus Fellowship. He died after a short illness on January 15, 2020.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals:
Papers were initially acquired on January 13, 2006 and were restricted until 2009. An additional two boxes of sound recordings and one box of correspondence was added on May 4, 2013. Four additional boxes of files were added on May 2, 2019. An additional seven boxes of files and twelve boxes of sound recordings were added on July 21, 2021. An addition of two boxes of files and one box of cassette recordings were added on July 25, 2022.
Access Restrictions:
Collection restricted until January 13, 2009, opened January 14, 2009.
Acquisition Source:
Bruno Nettl
Acquisition Method:
Gift
Other Note:
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Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Administrative Files, 1965-2009],
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Series 2: Correspondence, 1958-2010],
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Series 4: Sound Recordings, 1949-1974],
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Series 5: Diplomas, Awards, Honorary Degrees, and Photographs, 1948-2018],
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- Series 3: Research, 1951-2002
- This series contains several of Dr. Nettl's original research publications, project proposals, original field notebooks, original map designs, transcriptions of melodies and folk songs, and materials consulted while he conducted his research including newsclippings, maps, and secondary source articles. Of particular note are his field notebooks from his research trips to Montana Blackfoot Reservations (1966, 1967, 1984, 1986), Iran (1966, 1968, 1969, 1971), and India (1981). In addition, this series contains early writings by Dr. Nettl including research completed and published as a masters and doctoral student.
- Sub-Series 1: Writings, Lectures, and Grant Applications, 1951-2000
- Box 4
- Folder 1: "The Conservatory of Europe: Vignettes on Ethnicity and Musical Identity in Czech Lands," by Bruno Nettl, 1998
- Chapter in Music and German National Identity, edited by Pamela Potter and Celia Applegate. Also includes introductory chapter by Applegate and Potter.
- Folder 2: "Teaching World Music in the USA: 50 Years of Trial and Error," by Bruno Nettl, 1999
- Folder 3: "New Years Eve: Addler's Successors," by Bruno Nettl, 1998
- Folder 4: "Music" New Grove Definition, by Bruno Nettl, 1996-2000
- Folder 6: "The Seminal 1880s: The Beginnings of Musicology and Ethnomusicology," Lecture by Bruno Nettl, 1985
- Folder 7: "Ethnomusicological Views of History: Questions of Emphasis," Lecture given in Mainz, by Bruno Nettl, 1991
- Folder 8: "Blackfoot Musical Thought," Lecture by Bruno Nettl, ca. 1985
- Folder 9: Western Influence Lecture, Undated
- Folder 14: NEH Seminar - 1979 Application, 1978-1981
- Folder 15: Tehran Research Unit Proposal, ca. 1975
- Folder 16: Research Applications, 1978-1982
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Article Reviews and Annotations, ca. 1976
- Folder 2: The Study of Ethnomusicology, Book Outline and Notes, ca. 1983
- Folder 3: Ethno Book Anotations, ca. 1974
- Most likely chapter outlines for The Study of Ethnomusicology.
- Folder 4: Book Illustrations, Undated
- Most likely examples used in The Study of Ethnomusicology
- Folder 5: Book Illustrations, Undated
- Most likely examples used in The Study of Ethnomusicology.
- Folder 8: National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies Grant Applications, 1980-82
- Folder 13: "Current Problems in American Ethnomusicology," lecture given in the USSR, 1987-88
- Folder 16: Bar Ilan University International Council on Traditional Music Conference and "George Herzog as a Scholar and Teacher" Paper Given by Bruno Nettl, 1986-1988
- Folder 19: "The Seminal 1880's" Lecture Notes by Bruno Nettl, 1985
- Folder 21: "The Institutionalization of Musicology: Perspectives of a North American Ethnomusicologist," by Bruno Nettl and Correspondence with Nicholas Cook, 1993-1996
- Box 11
- Folder 4: "Towards the Comparitive Study of the Structure of Traditional Repertoiries," by Bruno Nettl and Stephen Blum, ca. 1968
- Box 17
- Folder 60: "The Phonemes of the Ibo" by Bruno Nettl, ca. 1951
- Folder 61: Peyote Project, Manuscript Partials, ca. 1953
- Folder 62: Manuscript Materials for Klamath Indians Research, 1956
- Folder 63: "Relations Between Language and Music in Folklore," by Bruno Nettl, 1956
- In Spanish.
- Folder 64: "Musical Style of Klamath Songs," by Bruno Nettl, 1956-1965
- Folder 65: "Classification of Folk Melodies and Related Subjects," by Stephen Blum and Bruno Nettl, ca. 1965
- Folder 66: "Aspects of Folk Music in American Cities," by Bruno Nettl, 1969
- Folder 67: "Line Families in a Sample of Czech Folk Music," by Bruno Nettl, ca. 1972
- Folder 68: Outline for Blackfoot Musical Ethnography, ca. 1985
- Folder 69: Blackfoot Project Notes and Citations, ca. 1985
- Folder 70: Persian Diaspora in the Midwest Project Proposal, by Craig Macrae and Bruno Nettl, 1990
- Folder 71: Blackfoot Chapter on History, Manuscript partials, undated
- Box 24
- Folder 19: "Greek Philosophy in Medieval Music: Johannes de Grocheo" by Bruno Nettl, December 1949
- Folder 20: Publishing and Employment Contracts, 1956-1989
- Folder 21: Wayne State University Publishing, December 1959-June 2011
- Folder 22: "Library Classification of Music" by Bruno Nettl, March 1960
- Folder 23: Information Coordinators, Inc., June 1961-December 1970
- Folder 24: Free Press Corporation, March 12, 1962
- Folder 25: Prentice-Hall Publishing, September 1962-October 2015
- Folder 26: Baerenreiter, July 1969-January 1993
- Folder 27: Heartland Excursions book reviews, 1995-1997
- Folder 28: Florentine Workshop in Biomusicology, May 29-June 3, 1997, 1997
- Folder 29: "Nigdy Nie Styszalem, zeby kon spiewal" by Bruno Nettl, 2001
- Folder 30: Obituary for Alex L. Ringer, printed in SEM Newsletter, September 2002
- Folder 31: SEM 59th Annual Meeting Program, November 2014
- Box 25
- Folder 1: University of Illinois Contracts, 1970-1994
- Folder 2: University of Illinois Press Publishing Contracts, 1976-2013
- Folder 3: "Musical Values and Social Values: Symbols in Iran" by Bruno Nettl, 1977
- Folder 4: Macmillan Publishing Contract, 1983-1993
- Folder 5: University of Chicago Press, 1987-1997
- Folder 6: "Mozart and the Ethnomusicological Study of Western Culture" by Bruno Nettl, 1989
- Folder 7: "But What is Music? Musings on Musicians at Buner"
- Folder 8: "Paul Nettl and the Musicological Study of Culture Contact" by Bruno Nettl, 1992
- Folder 9: School of Music Commencement Talk, May 17, 1992
- Folder 10: "The Concept of Evolution in the History of Ethnomusicology" by Bruno Nettl, 2005
- Folder 11: Mellon Fellowship, 2009-2012
- Folder 12: "Four Stories about Music in the Czech Lands" by Bruno Nettl, March 25, 2010
- Folder 13: Scarecrow Press Publishing Contract, October 2012
- Folder 14: Musik Salon Symposium, Berlin, December 14-15, 2012
- Folder 15: Abraham, Otto and E.M. Von Hornbostel, "Indian Melodies from British-Columbia," translated by Bruno Nettl, undated
- Folder 16: Bruno and Paul Nettl dedications, undated
- Folder 17: Ethnomusicology Bibliography, undated
- Folder 18: "Free Associations" by Bruno Nettl, undated
- Folder 19: Index, Encounters in Ethnomusicology, undated
- Folder 20: "The Music in Plato's 'Republic'" by Bruno Nettl, undated
- Folder 21: "The Study of Ethnomusicology" outlines and critiques, undated
- Box 26
- Item 1: Blackfoot, bibliography and outline, undated
- Oversize Portfolio Case 1
- Folder 1: "Ideas About Music and Musical Thought" Lecture Poster, April 12, 1994
- Box 39
- Folder 5: Abiding Issues in the Study of Native American Song: Three Excursions, Keynote Lecture, Society for Ethnomusicology Midwest Chapter, Ohio State U, April 30, 1994
- Folder 6: "An Ethnomusicological Perspective," in Barbara Lundquist and others, ed., Musics of the World's Cultures, 1998
- Folder 7: Diasporic Communities, Identity, and Music: Account of One Family, 1998
- Folder 8: "On Preserving Musical Cultures: Contemplations and Confessions," Tritter Lecture, College of Music Society, Denver, CO, October 15, 1999
- Folder 9: Ethnomusicology Around Y2K: Interpreting History from a North American Perspective, Harvard Lecture, 2001
- Folder 10: Ethnomusikologie Von Y2K Gesehen: Zur Geschicte Unseres Fachs, 2001
- Folder 11: "What Did We Think We Were Doing? Notes on Archiving in Midcentury," UCLA Conf. on Ethnomusicological Archives, November 10, 2001
- Folder 12: "Iran viii. Persian Music" and attached email from Encyclopedia Iranica, 2004
- Folder 13: Correspondence on and Intro to "Musics of the World: Analysis, Categorization and Theory" (Michael Tenzer), December 6, 2005
- Folder 14: Gilbert, Shirli: Music in the Holocaust: Confirming Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps, Book Review, 2005
- Folder 15: Commencement Address, 2006
- Folder 16: Comments at Memorial Celebration for John Garvey, University of Illinois, October 15, 2006
- Folder 17: Erwagen Wissen Ethik: Journal Contents List, 2006
- Folder 18: Preliminary Program of the 5th Meeting of the Study Group Music and Minorities, Prague, 2006
- Folder 19: Response to Victor Graver: On the Concepts of Evolution in the History of Ethnomusicology-draft, 2006
- Folder 20: "We're on the Map: Reflections on SEM in 1995 and 2005," Ethnomusicology, 2006
- Folder 21: The World of Music: Vol. 48 (2): Title page and table of contents; handwritten notes on evolution, 2006
- Folder 22: From the Prehistory of Ethnomusicology at the U of I, 2007
- Folder 23: "Music and 'That Complex Whole,'" Keynote Lecture, College Music Society NE Chapter, Westminster Choir, Princeton, NJ, March 24, 2007
- Folder 24: "On the Concept of Improvisation in teh World's Musics," Lecture, Groninger, Netherlands, 2007
- Folder 25: Return to the Heartlands: Second Thought on Ethnography, Keynote Lecture, Indiana PA - AMS-SEM, March 30, 2007
- Folder 26: Touching on Some of the Principal Issues of Ethnomusicology: Response to Rolf Oerter, 2007
- Folder 27: Minorities in the History of Ethnomusicology: A Meditation on a Half Century of Experience, Keynote Address, ICTM Study Group, Prague, May 24, 2008
- Folder 28: "On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran," in G. Solis and B. Nettl, ed., Musical Improvisation, 2008
- Folder 29: Preface to Shadows in the Field, ed. Barz and Cooley, 2008
- Folder 30: From the Prehistory of Ethnomusicology at the U of I, Sonorities, Winter 2008
- Folder 31: Contemplating Ethnomusicology Past and Present: Ten Abiding Questions-U of Aveiro Lecture Draft, 2009
- Folder 32: Contemplating Musicology at Illinois and the World, Sonorities, 2009
- Folder 33: In the Course of Performance: Ethnomusicological Approaches to Improvisation, U of Aviero Lecture, 2009
- Folder 34: "Ethnomusicology Critiques Itself: Comments on the History of a Tradition" in Elliott and Smith Music Traditions, 2010
- Folder 35: "Gender (and Other) Identities in Singing Style and Vocal Tone Color: Ethnomusicological Perspectives and Two Brief Illustrations," in D. Attenberg and R. Bayreuther, ed. Musik und Kulturelle Identitat Bericht uber den XIII Internationalen Kongress, 2012
- Folder 36: "What are the Great Disoveries of Your Field?" Internat'l Journal of Education in the Arts-Draft, 2012
- Folder 37: "What are the Great Discoveries of Your Field?" Keynote Lecture, 8th Internat'l Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 16, 2012
- Folder 38: Concerning an Article in Musical Quarterly (1961)- Comments on North American Indian Polyphony Half Century Later, Draft and Talk, 2014
- Folder 39: In Memoriam: Judith McCulloh (1935-2014) by Bruno Nettl-SEM Newsletter, 2014
- Box 40
- Folder 1: "On World Music As a Concept in the History of Music Scholarship" In Philip V. Bohman, ed., The Cambridge History of World Music", 2014
- Folder 2: Ethnomusicological Lives: Table of Contents and Introduction, 2016
- Folder 3: Review of Iranian Classical Music: The Discourse and Practice of Creativity, Laudan Nooshin, 2017
- Folder 4: "Contemplating the Twentieth Century: Studying the 'Other' and Ourselves as Ethnomusicologists", undated
- Folder 5: CAS Workshop Talk: Remarks on the Diaspora of Musicology, undated
- Folder 6: Ethnomusicologists Studying Improvisation: Comments on a Few Landmarks, draft, undated
- Folder 7: FAQs on Native American Music, undated
- Folder 8: Folk Music, undated
- Folder 9: Keynote Speaker Introduction for Bruno Nettl, undated
- Folder 10: Music - Iran, undated
- Folder 11: Music Ownership and Control in Blackfoot Culture: Contexts, History, Change- Melbourne Lecture, undated
- Folder 12: "Music Ownership and Control in Blackfoot Culture: Remarks on Identity, Knowledge, Performance", undated
- Folder 13: My Mother the Pianist - copy and draft, undated
- Folder 14: The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Ed., Gary McPhearson, Graham Welch, undated
- Folder 15: Paul Nettl, Bohemian Musicologist: Emigration adn Virtual Return", undated
- Folder 16: "Poker Games, Liberation Classes, Popular Music and the End of Camelot", undated
- Folder 17: Proposal: A History of the Field of Ethnomusicology, undated
- Folder 18: Reminiscences of Detroit, Harmonie Park Press, and Bunker Clark- draft and copy, undated
- Folder 19: Review: Folk Song Tradition, Revival, and Recreation, ed., by I. Russell and D. Atkinson, 2004, undated
- Folder 20: Revisiting Comparison, Comparitive Method, and Comparative Musicology: Comments on Disciplinary History, undated
- Folder 21: Revisiting some Fundamental Questions: Talk at U. of North Texas, draft, undated
- Folder 22: "Shadows" Preface, undated
- Folder 23: "Some Contributions of Ethnomusicology", undated
- Folder 24: "Turning a Corner: Ethnomusicology, 1948-1953," essay not submitted/accepted, undated
- Folder 25: "Was ist Musik?" Ethnomusikologische Perspektive" In Musik-Zu Begriff und Konzepten, ed. by Michael Beiche and Albrecht Rietmüller, 2006
- Folder 26: Writing the Meat-and-Potatoes Book: Musical Ethnography-draft, undated
- Sub-Series 2: Field Notes, Transcriptions, and Primary Research Materials, 1966-2002
- Box 11
- Folder 5: The Polka News, Newspaper, April 1987
- Box 17
- Folder 72: Blackfoot Fieldnotes and Department of the Interior Correspondence, 1966
- Folder 73: Iran Fieldnotes, ca. 1966
- In English and Farsi.
- Folder 74: Summer Fieldnotes Blackfoot Indians and Proposal, 1967
- Folder 75: Recording Collection 65 - Iran Field Recording Catalog and Notes, 1968-1969
- In English and Farsi.
- Folder 76: Chaharcah - Interview Transcriptions and Tuning Charts from Iran Trip, 1969
- In English and Farsi.
- Folder 77: Collection 92 - Racy Tape Catalog Notes, 1971-1972
- Folder 78: India Field Notes, 1981-1982
- Folder 79: Southwest Museum Blackfoot Audio Recording Collection Research, 1984
- Folder 80: Blackfoot Song Type Chart, ca. 1984
- Folder 81: Blackfeet Community College, Browning Montana, 1985-86 Course Catalog, 1985
- Folder 82: Arapaho Songs, Transcriptions and Notes, ca. 1985
- Folder 83: Blackfoot Field Notes, 1986
- Folder 84: Blackfoot Tables and Research Notes, ca. 1986
- Folder 85: Persian Music Concert Programs, 1987-1992
- In English and Farsi.
- Folder 86: The Music of Viguen and Ravinbakhsh, Published Sheet Music, 1992
- In Farsi.
- Folder 87: Arapaho Soldiers Song Transcriptions and Statistics, undated
- Folder 88: Arapaho Songs Collected by Zdenek Salzmann, Notes, undated
- Folder 89: Borumand Transcriptions of Gushehs, Notes, undated
- Folder 90: Collection 220 - Borumand Radif Catalog, undated
- In Farsi.
- Folder 91: Iranian Popular Music, Notes and Catalog, undated
- In Farsi.
- Folder 92: Kiowa Peyote Song Transcriptions, undated
- Folder 93: Music Notebook with Transcriptions, undated
- Folder 94: Transcriptions of Hand Game Songs, undated
- Box 18
- Folder 1: Transcriptions of North American Indian Songs, undated
- Folder 2: Transcriptions of Shawnee Songs, undated
- Box 19
- Folder 2: Native American Cultures, Languages, and Musical Styles, Maps, 1968-1985
- Folder 3: The Glacier Reporter Newspaper, Clippings, 1977-1984
- Folder 4: The Hindu Newspaper, Clippings, 1981
- Folder 5: Blackfeet Tribal News, Clippings, 1984
- Folder 6: Newsclippings Regarding Persian Music and Music in Iran, 1992-2002
- Folder 7: Persian Music Recording Transcriptions and Texts, undated
- In Farsi.
- Box 25
- Folder 22: Iran, clippings and notes, 1968-1974
- Folder 23: Madras [Chennai], India (1 of 2), 1981-1982
- Folder 24: Madras [Chennai], India (2 of 2), 1981-1982
- Folder 25: Peyote Songs, undated
- Folder 26: Transcriptions of Native American, Spanish, English, and Eastern European Songs, undated
- Folder 27: Transcriptions of Ukrainian Songs, undated
- Sub-Series 3: Secondary Sources and Annotations, 1910-2001
- Box 18
- Folder 3: Beckerman, Michael, "In Search of Czechness in Music", 1986
- Folder 4: Beckerman, Michael, "Hiawatha and the Largo" in New World's of Dvorak, 2003
- Folder 5: Blackfoot Miscellaneous Ethnographies, 1912-1977
- Folder 6: Blackfoot State of Research, Bibliography of Ethnographies, ca. 1985
- Folder 7: Blackfoot Annotated Notes from Ethnographies, ca. 1985
- Folder 8: Clark, Ella, "Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies", ca. 1985
- Folder 9: Dempsey, Hugh, "The Blackfoot Ghost Dance", 1968
- Folder 10: Grinell, George, "The Butterfly and the Spider Among Blackfeet", 1899
- Folder 11: Hanks, Lucien M., Jr. and Jane Richardson Hanks, "Tribe Under Trust: A Study of the Blackfoot Reserve of Alberta", 1950
- Folder 12: Hatton, Orin Thomas, "Performance Practices of Northern Plains Pow-wow Singing Groups", 1973
- Folder 13: Hatton, Orin Thomas, "War Expedition Songs in the John M. Cooper Collection of Gros Ventre Indian Music", 1986
- Folder 14: Macrae, Craig, "Music in the Life of Iranian Emigres in the Midwest: The Bloomington, IN Community", 1992
- Folder 15: Mcfee, Malcolm, "The 150% Man: A Product of Blackfeet Acculturation", 1972
- Folder 16: Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, "Linguistic Models and the Analysis of Musical Structures", 2001
- Signed copy with note to Bruno Nettl on the cover.
- Folder 17: Schultz, James Willard and the Piegan Story Teller, "The Peace Trail", 1980
- Folder 18: Schultz, James Willard, Why Gone Those Times? Blackfoot Tales, Excerpts, 1974
- Folder 19: Wissler, Clark, "Material Culture of the Blackfoot Indians", 1910
- Folder 20: Wissler, Clark, Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians, 1912
- Folder 21: Wissler, Clark, "Societies and Dance Associations of the Blackfoot Indians", 1913
- Folder 22: Witmer, Robert, Melodic Interrelationships in a Group of Songs of the Xhosa Tribe of South Africa, 1967
- Folder 23: Witmer, Robert, "Indians of North America," in Blackfoot/Blood, 1986
- Box 25
- Folder 28: Beckerman, Michael. "The Dark Blue Exile of Jaroslav Jezek.", 2008
- Folder 29: Hinton, Leanne. "Havasupi Musical Events.", 1967-1980
- Folder 30: International Music Council. "Notation of Folk Music.", 1952
- Folder 31: Lomax, Alan. West Indian Collection Index., 1962
- Folder 32: Wong, Isabel K. F. "The Heritage of Kunqu.", 2009
- Sub-Series 4: George Herzog Project, 1928-1999
- Box 25
- Folder 33: George Herzog Correspondence (1 of 10), June 19, 1928-July 27, 1934
- Correspondence with Barry Phillips
- Folder 34: George Herzog's Correspondence (2 of 10), January 17, 1938-October 18, 1949
- Correspondence with Samuel Baynard
- Folder 35: George Herzog's Correspondence (3 of 10), October 7, 1935-July 23, 1937
- Correspondence with Franz Boaz
- Folder 36: George Herzog's Correspondence (4 of 10), October 19, 1933-February 12, 1952
- Correspondence with Manfred Bukofzer, E.G. Burrows, and C.L. Camp
- Folder 37: George Herzog's Correspondence (5 of 10), January 14, 1941-June 19, 1958
- Correspondence with Z. Estreicher, Peter E. Farrell, and Otto Gombosi
- Folder 38: George Herzog's Correspondence (6 of 10), December 3, 1934-January 11, 1953
- Correspondence with Donald J. Grout, Glen Haydon, Jules Henry, and K.G. Izikowitz
- Folder 39: George Herzog's Correspondence (7 of 10), July 11, 1927-June 24, 1970
- Correspondence with Barbara Krader and Alfred Kroeber
- Folder 40: George Herzog's Correspondence (8 of 10), March 4, 1937-November 1
- Correspondence with Gertrude Kurath and Robert Lowie.
- Folder 41: George Herzog's Correspondence (9 of 10), July 13 1934-June 19 1970
- Correspondence with Dave McCallester, Gustave Reese, and Curt Sachs
- Folder 42: George Herzog's Correspondence (10 of 10), December 27 1933-August 26 1958
- Correspondence with Charles Seeger, John Ward, Leslia A. White, and Clark Wissler
- Folder 43: George Herzog works, 1936-1956
- Folder 44: George Herzog, Biographical Materials, 1986-1999
- Box 40
- Folder 27: George Herzog and The Study of Native American Music, undated
- Sub-Series 5: Paul Nettl Papers
- Box 25
- Folder 45: Paul Nettl Papers, 1919-1972
- Folder 46: Paul Nettl Correspondence, 1942-1944
- Box 40
- Folder 28: Paul Nettl biography and research, 2007
- Folder 29: Remembering Paul Nettl - free associations, undated
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