ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND ANTHROPOLOGY.

The article presents a review of the history of the studies on non-Western music in order to provide the reader with a better understanding of the later trends. This literature review excludes the information not of central interest to the discipline of anthropology in order to concentrate upon the relationship between music and culture. The importance of the study of music in culture is presently very great, however, there are a limited number of ethnomusicologists trained in anthropology. These few anthropologists cannot conceivably advance the study rapidly by themselves, unless many anthropologists take an interest in ethnomusicological research, the development of meaningful statements regarding the topic will be slow.