view music systems as “untranslatable.” Nettl then articulated three common problems with outsider ethnomusicologists: • They are only focused on comparing foreign traditions to their own. • They want to use their own approaches to non-Western music. • They generalize categories of music too easily. The chapter then transitioned to examining insiders. Nettl stated that colonialism could lead to confusion when determining who an insider is and debated whether insiders should help ethnomusicologists without compensation. The chapter concluded by outlining the best way to conduct fieldwork. Fieldwork is most effective when insiders and outsiders have mutual respect and understanding. It is also essential for outsiders to enter a field with an open mind and engage in their research as a “participant.” Selected publications Nettl was an extremely prolific scholar who authored numerous articles and book chapters found in an array of scholarly journals and edited volumes. Below is the list of books for which he is credited as author or editor. (1956). Music in Primitive Culture. Harvard University Press. . (1960). Cheremis Musical Styles. Indiana University Press (1964). Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology. The Free Press of Glencoe. (1965/1989). Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Prentice-Hall, Inc. . (1976). Folk Music In The U.S. An Introduction. WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS. (1977). Daramad of Chahargah: a study in the performance practice of Persian music. Detroit : Information Coordinators. (1978). Eight Urban Musical Cultures. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS. (1989). Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives. Ohio: The Kent State University Press. . (1983/2005). The Study of Ethnomusicology. University of Illinois Press. . (1991). Comparative Musicology And Anthropology Of Music. (with Philip V. Bohlman) University of Chicago Press. (1995). Heartland Excursions. University of Illinois Press. (1995). Music, Culture, & Experience. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. (1996). Excursions In World Music. PRENTICE HALL (1996). Musica Folklorica Y Tradicional En Los Continentes ALIANZA (1997). Africa in GARLAND PUBLISHING (1998). South America, Mexico, Central America And The Car (1998). In The Course Of Performance. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (1999). Europe in GARLAND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD MUSIC, V. 8 (2005). Study Of Ethnomusicology UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS (2010). Nettl's Elephant UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS (2013). Becoming an Ethnomusicologist: A Miscellany of Influences. The Scarecrow Press. . References Sources 1930 births 2020 deaths Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States Indiana University alumni University of Michigan alumni University of Illinois faculty American ethnomusicologists Czech ethnomusicologists People from Prague