本文是作者在1989年3月在美国民族音乐学会南加州分会上作学术报告的发言提要。现经作者本人同意作为本刊专论发表。编者我今天所要论述的是,民族音乐学的过去,现状和未来。无疑我们可以从过去学到很多东西,但是历史的记载往往由于史学家们的偏见而染上种种色彩,因此,我们从过去的事件中所学的东西乃是写历史的人所偏爱的。 This article is a synopsis of the report by the author at the American National Music Institute’s Southern California Chapter in March 1989. Now the author agreed to publish as a monograph. The editor I am going to discuss today is the past, present and future of ethnomusicology. There is no doubt that we can learn a great deal from the past, but historical records tend to be colored by the biases of historians, so what we learn from past events is favored by those who write history.