Music Theory Midwest

1999 Tenth Annual Conference
Butler University
14-15 May 1999 - Indianapolis, IN

MTMW 1999 Keynote Speaker:             Dr. Bruno Nettl

Our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Bruno Nettl, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The title of his presentation is "Theory as National Emblem: The Persian Radif in World Music." Professor Nettl's main research interests are ethnomusicological theory and method, North American Indian music, and music of the Middle East, especially Iran. He has done field work with the Blackfoot people of Montana, and in Iran, Israel, and India.

Professor Nettl has published many articles and more than a dozen books, the best known being The Study of Ethnomusicology (1983), Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives (1989), Heartland Excursions (1995), and most recently, In the Course of Performance, a collection of essays on improvisation. He has served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and is editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology. Professor Nettl has received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois as well as the following degrees: A.B. (music), M.A., Indiana University; M.A. (library science), University of Michigan; Ph.D. (musicology, ethnomusicology, with minors in anthropology and folklore), Indiana University.

MTMW 99 Local Arrangements:
 Jeffrey L. Gillespie
Assistant Professor of Music
Butler University
Phone: 317/940-6416
Email: jgillesp@butler.edu

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