# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruno-nettl
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:30:59.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruno-nettl"
name: "Bruno Nettl"
slug: "bruno-nettl"
description: "Bruno Nettl 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."
tagline: "American ethnomusicologist (1930–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Bruno_Nettl_headshot.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-03-14"
deathDate: "2020-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.26
  momentum:             0.7130973287734541
  historical:           10.27951866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "برونو نيتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88_%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "برونو نتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ブルーノ・ネトル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Nettl"
    title: "Bruno Nettl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump