城市音乐人类学是近年来产生并盛行于欧美的新型学科,尽管时间不算长,但是比有史以来任何形式的艺术变革给人类文化带来的影响都要大。城市音乐人类学在城市化进程深刻变化的同时,自身在形式上也发生了重大变化,它已成为现代音乐人类学学科发展的必然,也使城市音乐人类学研究自身在模式、形态上出现了重要的新特点。
Urban musicology is a new subject which was born and has become popular in Europe and America in recent years. Despite its short existence ,it has brought far bigger influence on human culture than any other kinds of art reforms in human history. In addition to bringing profound changes in the course of urbanization,urban musicology itself was greatly changed in its form and has become the necessity of modern musicology's development,endowing the study of urban musicology with new and important characteristics in its mode and form.