Bruno and Wanda Nettle 2014 (University of Illinois Press)
Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture in Ethnomusicology
Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture in Ethnomusicology
In 2000, Bruno Nettl, Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology (who began teaching ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois in 1964) and Mrs. Wanda Nettl (an artist) established in the University of Illinois Foundation an endowment whose proceeds provide funds for an annual lecture by a distinguished senior scholar. The purpose of the lecture series is to provide students with exposure to distinguished scholars, but also to make ethnomusicology, as a field of research and as a significant contributing factor in education, better known on our campus. The lectures are intended to attract a general academic audience, particularly from related disciplines, as well as faculty and graduate students already well informed on matters of ethnomusicology. Since its inception, the fund—enlarged by donations from alumni—has supported visits by distinguished lecturers annually since 2001.
2025 – Stefan Fiol
“Dialects of Dhol: Listening to Dalit Drumming as History, Memory, and Resistance”
2024 – No Lecture
2023 – Dwandalyn Reece
“Musical Crossroads: Interpreting the Material Culture of African American Music”
2022 – No Lecture
2021 – Timothy Rice
“Engaging Bruno Nettl as Music Educator and Music Historian” (virtual)
2020 – No Lecture
2019 – Kay Kaufman Shelemay
“Moral Leaders, Guards, and Guides: Musicians in Society”
2018 – No Lecture
2017 – Alejandro Madrid
“Diversity and Inclusion: Ghostly Gimmicks and the Relevance of Contemporary U.S. Music Academic Institutions”
2016 – Portia Maultsby
“Performing Blackness: Black Gospel Music in the Netherlands”
2015 – Martin Stokes
“Music and Citizenship”
2014 – Philip Bohlman
“Again, Herder”
2013 – Thomas Turino
“On Theory and Model Building in Ethnomusicology: How to Make Our Ideas Clear”
Keynote in conjunction with Sixty Years of Excellence in Musicology at Illinois: A Celebratory Symposium
2012 – Michael Beckerman
“The Darkening of Night and Other Strange Tales from Gideon Klein’s Concentration Camp Lullaby”
2011 – Steven Feld
“Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra”
2010 – Steven Friedson
“Dancing Prophets and Divine Horsemen: Musical Experience in African Ritual”
2009 – Ellen Koskoff
“Musical Bodies in Bali”
2008 – Stephen Blum
“Music and Religious Diversity in Iran”
2007 – Deborah A. Wong
“Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk about Blisters and More”
2006 (Fall) – Charlotte Frisbie
“You Also Work as a Church Organist? Whatever For?”
2006 (Spring) – Jeff Todd Titan
“Sustainable Music”
2005 – No Lecture
2004 – Mark Slobin
“Afghanistan: Musical Construction and Reconstruction”
2003 – Daniel Neuman
“Studying the Social Organization of Musicians in India”
2002 – Beverley Diamond
“Indigenous Music Cultures in an Interconnected World”
2001 – Anthony Seeger (Inaugural Lecture)
“From Jaguars to Napster: Who Owns Music and What We Should Do About It?”