我们是谁?--民族音乐学研究的集体焦虑

What Are We?The Collective Anxiety of Ethnomusicological Research

我们是谁?———音乐学的抑或人类学的?成了中国民族音乐学的集体焦虑。虽然事涉学科投向,但问题根源则是对“音乐本体”认知上的分歧。音乐观念、行为和声音三位一体的整体思维观将音乐视为“乐本体”而不是“音本体”;这既是拥抱“音乐文化研究”的理由,也是与“声音形态分析”方法不离不弃的内在逻辑。方法有“出身”但无“性别”。民族音乐学的目光投向哪里,是由个人学术旨趣、研究方向和知识结构所决定而非方法。该反思的,是当下民族音乐学研究中的“泛化”和“内卷化”问题。

What are we?Musicological or Anthropological?This has become a collective anxiety in Chinese ethnomusicology academia.Although it concerns the subject matter of the discipline,the root of the problem is a disagreement about the perception of"music sound itself".The holistic view of music,as a trinity of concept,behaviour and sound,takes music as a"musical"rather than a"sonic"subject,which indicates its embracement of"music cultural studies"and is inseparable from the"morphological analysis of sound".What ethnomusicology should pay attention to is determined by researchers’academic interests,research direction and knowledge structure,not by research methodology.It is time to reflect on the"generalisation"and"involution"of ethnomusicological research.