Journal of Literature and Music Studies
JLMS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.10-20.
Print ISSN: 3134-8130; Online ISSN: 3134-8149
Journal homepage: https://www.jlmsjournal.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64058/jlwe260102rbhsc
张磊（Zhang Lei）
摘要：文学与音乐跨学科研究历经近八十年的发展，已成为一个学科意识日益自觉的研究领域，但共识与误用并存。本文在梳理该领域既有研究的基础上，首先探讨了该领域在学科建制、术语谱系、音乐概念拓展以及音乐社会性等方面形成的基本共识，继而分析了过度阐释、方法论的“巴别塔”困境、文本适用性以及形式分析与文化分析的对立等常见误解。在此基础上，本文重点聚焦当前仍处于论争前沿的四个核心议题：人工智能生成内容对创作主体与聆听关系的挑战、后人类声音生态学对物种边界的重构、后殖民声景对西方音乐中心主义的去殖民化，以及中国古典声音哲学作为本土理论资源的积极介入。探讨这些问题的目的，不在于建立一套完美的分析体系，而在于彰显那种超越学科边界的探索精神本身。倾听文学与音乐之间的对话，已是二十一世纪文学研究中一门不可回避的课题。
关键词：学科共识与误解；人工智能与音乐；后人类声景；后殖民声景；中国声音哲学
作者简介：张磊，中国政法大学外国语学院教授，博士生导师，研究方向：外国文学与音乐跨学科研究、外国文学与法律跨学科研究。电子邮箱：zhangleicupl@163.com。
Title: Recognizing Boundaries and Hearing Sounds: Consensus, Misunderstandings, and Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Music
Abstract: The interdisciplinary study of literature and music has undergone nearly eighty years of development and has become a field of increasing disciplinary self-awareness, yet consensus coexists with misunderstanding. On the basis of a survey of existing research in this field, this paper first examines the fundamental consensus that has emerged in such areas as disciplinary formation, terminological genealogy, the expansion of the concept of music, and the sociality of music. It then analyzes common misunderstandings, including the risk of over-interpretation, the “Tower of Babel” predicament of methodology, the question of textual applicability, and the false opposition between formal analysis and cultural analysis. On this foundation, the paper focuses on four core issues at the forefront of current debate: the challenge posed by AI-generated content to the relationship between the creative subject and the listening subject, the reconstruction of species boundaries by posthuman sound ecology, the decolonization of Western musicocentrism in postcolonial soundscapes, and the active intervention of classical Chinese sound philosophy as a local theoretical resource. The purpose of exploring these issues is not to establish a perfect analytical system, but to highlight the very spirit of exploration that transcends disciplinary boundaries. To listen to the dialogue between literature and music has become an indispensable task for literary studies in the twenty-first century.
Keywords: disciplinary consensus and misunderstanding; artificial intelligence and music; posthuman soundscape; postcolonial soundscape; Chinese sound philosophy
Author Biography: Zhang Lei, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Foreign Studies, China University of Political Science and Law. Research areas: interdisciplinary studies of foreign literature and music, interdisciplinary studies of foreign literature and law. E-mail: zhangleicupl@163.com.
Received: 15 Mar 2026 / Revised: 25 Mar 2026 / Accepted: 01 Apr 2026 / Published online: 30 May 2026 / Print published: 30 Jun 2026.
