Thinking about the teaching of popular music in colleges and universities: what are the characteristics of popular music?

Abstract Currently, popular music in the public **** music courses in our country's colleges and universities is gradually entering into the classroom teaching, which is welcomed by both teachers and students, but there is no unified standard and specification on the content, teaching method, teaching materials construction, curriculum arrangement, syllabus and other aspects of the teaching of popular music, and the article puts forward a few suggestions for improving the teaching of popular music in colleges and universities.

Keywords: college pop music teaching

With the wide spread of pop music, some schools and some music educators have begun to pay attention to pop music education and started to enter the college music classroom. The introduction of pop music can enrich students' inner feelings, broaden their musical and cultural horizons, and improve the cultural level of the campus, and is loved by the majority of college students.

I. Positioning popular music in college music teaching

We should face up to the role of popular music education, and incorporate it into the college music classroom. Although popular music has a wide range of subjects, music styles and styles are also relatively diverse, but it has been tested through practice and artistic precipitation, only a part of the popular music can be called classical and has certain artistic value. The It has been sublimated by history and widely recognized, and its artistic value is eternal. Therefore, pop music should be used as a kind of element to enter into the actual classroom of the school, and widely absorbed into the music culture of the old generation of national music, traditional music and western classical music, while pop music also conveys popular and popular cultural information to the music of the old generation, and both of them promote each other, and make classroom teaching more colorful and diversified by using the intervention of pop music. This is not only conducive to the students' acquisition of diversified music knowledge and absorption of various music and art nutrients, but also improves the students' music appreciation ability, which is conducive to the healthy development and popularization of music. When we disseminate music knowledge, we can not let pop music sing the main role in the classroom, so that the students' music literacy stays at the low level defined by pop music, deviating from the basic requirements of popularizing and improving the quality of students' music teaching. Let the music class more happy, more fulfilling, which is the purpose of our teaching.

Second, the reform of public **** music class teaching form

Now most of the music class is still to appreciate the main, explaining as a supplement, this traditional mode of teaching has been unable to meet the needs of college students, the classroom atmosphere is difficult to be active. We will introduce popular music into the classroom, from all levels and aspects of its connotation, so that students are interested in at the same time, can also have a purpose to learn. As a teacher in the classroom can be arranged for teacher-student interaction, the teacher can sing a little, dance a little, play a little, and drive the students to follow the singing, dancing, some students with a strong desire to perform on stage to interpret their works. Teachers can not only explain their favorite music forms and works in depth, students can also communicate with the teacher to introduce their favorite music forms and works. This kind of interactive teaching method can well stimulate the students' interest in learning and achieve better teaching results.

We can choose suitable popular music works to be played outside the classroom and between classes to cultivate students' interest and habit of listening to music and relax their tension, which also plays a certain role in paving the way for music classroom teaching. In addition, we can also organize and carry out lectures and reviews on pop music, hold pop song competitions, etc. On the one hand, we can guide students to look at pop music correctly and improve their aesthetic appreciation, on the other hand, through rich extracurricular practical activities, we can exercise their stage performance ability and psychological quality, improve their self-confidence and practical ability, mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of the students in learning in various aspects, and at the same time, we can also improve students' interest in classical music. At the same time, it can also improve the students' interest in classical music and folk music.

Three, rational planning of music curriculum

The number of music courses in colleges and universities at present is very limited, and the curriculum of each grade is almost the same, usually music appreciation courses, not according to the students' grades and psychological characteristics to set the curriculum. Faced with the need to change the traditional teaching mode and to establish the concept of teaching in keeping with the times, the characteristics of popular music elements are utilized to serve the efficient teaching reform. First of all, we should integrate the familiar pop music into the basic music theory, sight-singing and ear-training teaching training, challenge the traditional duckling teaching mode, and closely integrate with the times, use a familiar and favorite pop songs as practical examples, and visualize, concretize and simplify the abstract theoretical knowledge and skills in a concrete environment. Such as the use of multimedia, select the appropriate popular songs to appreciate, and the score example displayed on the courseware, combined with the knowledge of music basics such as music, rhythmic characteristics, speed, strength, harmony, modulation, compositional structure, so that students in the appreciation of popular music at the same time, to master the basics of music, which not only can bring students closer to the distance of the music, but also in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere to improve the efficiency of learning. Secondly, the elements and works of popular music can be added into the courses of vocal music, instrumental music, chorus, dance and other skills, so as to understand and learn the singing and playing of popular music works, and combine them with traditional and classical music works, so as to let the students come into contact with diversified music works and styles, thus broadening their artistic horizons and updating the curriculum content settings. Finally, a diversified and multi-level popular music appreciation course can be offered to understand the history of the development of popular music and the social background on the one hand, and to connect popular music with popular music culture on the other hand, to supplement and expand the materials and types of pop music. "There are a wide variety of popular music, but only rock music and electronic music are popular among college students. Even the singing styles of pop songs are mainly imitated by famous singers from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. If students can learn various styles of popular music systematically and master their singing skills and combination of forms, it will have a very positive significance for students to truly understand popular music and improve their aesthetic appreciation.

Four, update the knowledge structure of teachers

In ordinary colleges and universities, public **** music and art education faculty is not sound enough, and the level of teaching ability is uneven. Due to the current music teachers in ordinary colleges and universities are subject to professional education and traditional teaching methods, it is difficult to cater to the learning characteristics and practical requirements of non-professional students, especially for contemporary popular music without systematic study and research, which requires us to carry out further training of teachers, training, exchanges, self-study and other channels to enhance the majority of front-line teachers of the ideological concepts and business qualities, and the timely role of the role of the teaching The teaching practice of popular music should be incorporated into the curriculum of ordinary universities. Pop music should be included in the teaching content of public **** music elective courses in ordinary universities, from the artistic characteristics and cultural connotations of pop music itself, to study a set of effective teaching methods and teaching ideas, in order to correctly guide their students to learn pop music to make a certain foundation. Therefore, our teachers must take the initiative to learn contemporary popular music and related knowledge through continuous training and self-study, so that they can adapt to new things and new knowledge, and improve their comprehensive musical literacy and multi-talented professional level.

V. Conclusion

Currently, the teaching concepts and knowledge structure of music teachers in colleges and universities in China are not able to catch up with the changes of the trend of the times, which seriously affects the status and role of popular music teaching in the classroom. Popular music in the development of quality education in colleges and universities continue to improve, in order to better strengthen the harmony and rationality of music education and teaching, we should comply with the development of the times, improve and develop popular music education, the establishment of classroom teaching and extracurricular practical activities combined, taking into account the participation of the training, club activities and other guidance for the construction of extracurricular education system, comprehensive development of college students in the quality of education, and enhance their social competition in the The university has been able to develop the quality education of the students in a comprehensive way and improve their adaptability in social competition.

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