Musical anthropology is the study of musical compositions, music-related group behavior, and social connections.

Music anthropology research mainly involves the identity changes of traditional music circulating in the city, research on the spread and audience of urban pop music, research on the production and commercialization operation model of urban music, and research on the community life of urban citizens, etc. Thinking about the problem.

The overall status of the development of the "Musical Anthropology" discipline, as well as the nature of the anthropology discipline, the origin of the discipline, the four major sub-disciplines and the history and development of anthropology in China, and told about his own relationship with "Music Anthropology" "The meeting of fate. His rigorous research attitude, rich subject knowledge, and interesting reading experience gave students a clear understanding of the subject of "musical anthropology."

Music is a sound emitted by the human body or objects, with a certain intensity and amplitude, which travels through the air to the human eardrum, and then is transmitted from the eardrum to the brain through nerves. This definition is too general and covers all sounds in the world, including natural sounds, human voices, and even noise, etc. It obviously cannot answer the question of what music is.

People have proposed various characteristics that distinguish music from other sounds. Starting from the material materials that make up music, music is a regular and periodic sound, with regular changes in pitch, intensity, timbre and length. It forms the structure and form of music sound such as melody, tonality, harmony, rhythm, and orchestration. Further defined from an aesthetic perspective, music is neither a symbol of natural objects nor a carrier of conceptual symbols, but an object that exists as an aesthetic object.