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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 most senior professor in the mid-twentieth century was Dragan Plamenac2 (1895–1983),aCroatianmusicologistwhohadstudiedinVienna.PhilipBohlman took his master’s and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Illinois, under the mentorshipofBrunoNettland,whileteachingat theUniversityofChicagosince 1987, remainsaclosecolleagueandcollaboratorwithBrunoNettl.Amongtheir manyshared interests is the intellectualhistoryof ethnomusicology, andwithin thathistorybothhavemaintainedconnectionstoVienna,itsethnomusicological traditionsand folk-music research,until thepresent. Toestablishthegroundworkfortheconversationthatprovidesthecoreofthe present chapter,weprepared in several differentways. BrunoNettl, especially, turned to the literatureproducedbyGuidoAdler, particularly in the final dec- ades of his life, the time of his own retirement to emeritus professor and the momentofgrowingcrisis for Jewishmusical scholars inCentralEurope.Philip Bohlman, himself a scholar of Jewishmusic in themodern period, with par- ticular interests inCentralEurope,3prepared theoutlineofadiscussiontext to generatequestionsaboutGuidoAdler and the influenceshedid–ordidnot– have inthehistoryofAmericanmusicology fromthemid-twentiethcentury to the present. In the course of the conversation, we sought to identify specific individuals and the connections, personal and professional, that they had to GuidoAdler.WealsofocusedourexaminationofAdler’sinfluencesaroundthree typesof influence,whichwehere summarize as follows: a) The Adler genealogy: Adler students, who immigrated to the States, in- cluding their students, at least in theearlygeneration; b) The intellectualdebt toAdler: Thebodyof literatureassociatedwithAdler, and the ways it did or did not influence the emergence of American in- tellectual traditions; c) TheinstitutionalinfluenceofAdler:TheextenttowhichtheViennesemodel for themusicologiesmight have served nascent university programs and musicology inpublic institutions. Intheconversationthat follows,whichwetranscribe intheconversational tone inwhichittookplace,thepictureofAdlerinAmerica–GuidoAdler’sinfluences, academic, personal, andprofessional, and the legacy of theViennesemusico- logical traditionsonthehistoryofAmericanmusicscholarship–looks insome 2 The Croatian Jewishmusicologist Dragan Plamenac studied law, music composition, and musicology inZagreb,Prague, andVienna.Aspecialist in themusicof theRenaissanceand theBaroque,Plamenac immigratedto theUnitedStatesas theYugoslavrepresentativeat the 1939InternationalMusicological SocietyCongress inNewYorkCity.From1954hetaughtat theUniversityof Illinois atUrbana-Champaign. 3 See, e.g., Philip V. Bohlman: Jüdische Volksmusik – Eine mitteleuropäische Geistes- geschichte.Wienu.a.: Böhlau2005(=SchriftenzurVolksmusik21). Adler inAmerica–AConversation 205 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0