ABSTRACT
THE increasing interest in music and awareness of its significance as a revealing expression of man and his culture have given a fresh impetus to ethnomusicological research and investigation. Employing the techniques and methods of cultural anthropology and musicology, the discipline has struggled along these past seventy years as a stepchild of both parents, a second class citizen in the society of the social sciences and the humanities. This unenviable position results in part from the cross-relationship of ethnomusicology and the demands which it imposes on the student and scholar, for he must have a working knowledge and facility with the theoretical and empirical aspects of both disciplines if he would deal adequately with his material. The ethnologist with a basic training in musicology is as rare as the musicologist who has worked seriously in anthropology. The progress of ethnomusicology has been limited by the small number of workers who have been able to meet the double qualifications of the discipline.
