Nettl is one of ethnomusicology's founding fathers and revered senior figures, part of a pantheon that includes Mantle Hood, David McAllester, William Malm, and Alan Merriam. Besides writing for a plethora of publications, Nettl advised dozens of doctoral candidates at the University of Illinois, and many of them celebrate their mentor in this Festschrift. Nettl represents ‘modernist,’ data-centered ethnomusicology, not the current theory-based ‘postmodern’ form. These 35 essays provide a broad cross section of his students and their non-Illinois contemporaries, who form a kind of Nettl-based solar system. Although many Festschriften are random collections on miscellaneous subjects, this one will serve as a kind of reader in ‘classic ethnomusicology’ and could well be used by graduate students because it covers field-based, historical, (music) theoretical, medical, and children’s ethnomusicology, with essays on the US (including Native American), Europe, Latin America, and East, South, and Southeast Asia. The volume does not reflect ethnomusicology’s current fascination with postmodern cultural criticism and its sometimes off-putting writing style. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.