Dílo literární

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Eight Urban Musical Cultures (University of Illinois Press Urbana, 1978).

Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music. Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology (vyd. spolu s Philipem V. Bohlmanem, Chicago University Press 1991).

In The Course of Performance. Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation (Chicago University Press 1998).

Knižní a časopisecké publikace

Norths American Indian Musical Style (Philadelphia 1954).

Music in Primitive Culture (Harvard University Press Cambridge, 1956).

Cheremis Musical Styles (Indiana University Press, 1960).

Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology (New York, 1964).

Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents (Prentice-Hall, 1965, ²1989).

Daramad of Chahargah, a Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts (společně s Bélou Foltinem ml., University of Illinois Urbana, 1983).

Folk Music In The U.S. An Introduction (Wayne State University 1976).

The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty Issues and Concepts (University of Illinois Press Urbana, (1983, ²2005).

The Western Impact on World Music (New York 1985).

The Radif of Persian Music Studies of Structure and Cultural Context (Champaign 1987, ²1992).

Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives (The Kent State University Press Ohio, 1989).

Excursions In World Music (spolu s dalšími autory, Prentice Hall Press Englewood, 1992, ²1996, ³2000, ⁴2003).

Paul Nettl and the musicological study of culture contact (Colloquium Ethnonationale Wechselbeziehungen in der mitteleuropäischen Musik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Situation in den böhmischen Ländern Brno 1992, Brno 1994, s. 223–228), česky jako: Paul Nettl a hudebněvědná studia kulturních kontaktů (Opus musicum 24, 1992. s. 268–271).

Heartland Excursions. Ethnomusicological Perspectives on Schools of Music (University of Illinois Press Urbana, 1995).

Music, Culture and Experience (Chicago University Press, 1995).

Musica Folklorica y Tradicional en Los Continentes (Allianza, 1996).

Africa in (Garland Publishing, 1997).

South America, Mexico, Central America And The Caribbean (The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, svazek 2, Alexander Street Press Alexandria – Virginia 1998).

Europe (Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 8, 1999).

Encounters in Ethnomusicology: A Memoir (Detroit Monographs in Musicology. Studies in Music 36, Harmonie Park Press, Warren – Michigan 2002; recenze v češtině Vít Zdrálek, Hudební věda 45, 2008, s. 195–199).

Ethnicity and Muscial Identity in the Czech Lands. (Music and German National Identity, University of Chicago Press, 2002, s. 269–287).

Il rapporto del presente con il passato (Introduzione all‘ etnomusicologia, 2002, s. 269–287).

I‘m a Stranger Here Myself: Free Associations from an Ethnomusicologist (Kurt Weill Newsletter 21/2, 2003, s. 6–11).

Enciclopedia della Musica. Musica urbana (Torino Erinaudi, 2003).

Une anthropologie de la musique classique occidentale: La culture comme ‚autre‘. (L‘homme 171–172, červenec – prosinec 2004, s. 333–352).

The Study Of Ethnomusicology. Issues and Concepts (Illinois University Press Urbana, 2005).

Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society (Illinois University Press Urbana, 2009).

Nettl‘s Elephant. On the History of Ethnomusicology (Illinois University Press Urbana 2010).