Study on the Gradient and Difference of the Anthropology of Music and Ethnomusicology in the Perspective of Epistemology

Abstract

From the beginning of the New World discovery, the Anthropology of Music and ethnomusicology began to have a gradual process of derivatives and gradually differentiate in their field of study. From the perspective of epistemology and cognition, this paper describes ethnomusicology, the Anthropology of Music gradients and their study and research perspective differences. This not only shows the dialysis of the academic discipline and research purposes focus more clearly, but also to characterize the Ethnomusicology and The Anthropology of Music in discipline development nowadays already mature.