This chapter critically reflects on the scholarly distinction between the recognized/able and the unrecognized/able through the lens of the “central” and the “non-central.” Since 2012, the topics of “global history of music” and “global musicology” have attracted significant attention from ethnomusicologists, historical musicologists, and music theorists alike. To grasp this phenomenon more fully, Shen elucidates the relationships between different discursive clusters and the intellectual genealogies of musicology in the post-WWII period. Shen argues that musicologists have followed a discernible path from a state of division—through transgression—to calls for suture. The success of this suturing, however, depends on those in the centers acknowledging the dynamics between central and non-central positions, and on the self-enlightenment and self-initiated actions chosen by those in non-centers.