A brief discussion on the introduction of pop music into music teaching

Abstract: The rapid development of pop music has had a great impact on students and has also caused changes in music teaching. . In music classroom teaching, the selected popular music works must be conducive to the development of young people, have healthy and uplifting content, beautiful tunes, and rich connotations.

Keywords: Music teaching, introduction of popular music teaching objectives

With the rapid development of politics, economy, science and technology, and culture, a globalized culture has emerged Phenomenon - pop music. In comparison, pop music pays more attention to individuality, contemporary nature, and popularity. These characteristics are exactly in line with the physical and psychological characteristics of teenagers and their open and curious character traits. Therefore, music teachers cannot resist pop music in the classroom. Instead of blindly suppressing and belittling, it is better to conduct detailed and scientific research, guide students to "sublate" acceptance, and understand the rationality and artistic value of popular music from the perspective of concepts and formal rules.

1. The teaching goals of popular music

The goals of popular music teaching are not completely equivalent to the goals of traditional music teaching. In addition to the comprehensive requirements of music education, there should be its own special purpose. The teaching objectives of popular music can be understood from three aspects:

1. Cultivate students' aesthetic taste and appreciation ability. To carry out popular music teaching, we should first take cultivating students' aesthetic taste as the primary starting point, improve students' love for music, enhance students' ability to recognize, understand, appreciate and create the beauty of music, and ultimately enable them to form a more mature and complete personality and become a person with the eternal pursuit of music. A truly kind and beautiful person. The infiltration and influence of popular music on young people is more of the infiltration and influence of social culture. Therefore, popular music teaching should also make students aware of the diversity, richness and sociality of music culture by understanding the history, development status, music characteristics and cultural characteristics of popular music, and improve students' understanding of popular music and different cultures through learning. appreciation ability.

2. Emotional attitude and value goals. Through the study of excellent pop music works, students can experience the rich emotional education content in the works and touch their emotional centers; the creative background of pop music is mostly close to life, so it can better promote students' life experience and form a more reasonable and effective Value system. The reason why pop music is so popular among students is that in addition to its external features such as melody and sound effects, its inherent emotional catharsis of social life is also an important aspect that attracts them. As Cui Jian himself said: "Cathharsis is a natural need for people, just like eating. All catharsis is just a symbol and a temporary relief. It cannot fundamentally solve the problem, but catharsis is still necessary. It can make The accumulated water will flow out without causing disaster."

3. Correct grasp of knowledge and skill goals. The author believes that three aspects should be grasped: direct goals, developmental goals, and sustainable goals. Take the song "Singing facial makeup" as an example. This is a popular song with a Beijing flavor. The direct goal of teaching should be to enable students to sing the song with the correct voice and understand the facial makeup knowledge of Peking Opera. The developmental goal of teaching should be stipulated in the innovation of song singing forms. Teachers should guide students to create secondary creations of song interpretations through certain methods and approaches, cultivate their sense of innovation, and initially experience the joy of success. The sustainable goal is to cultivate students' interest in music learning, especially to stimulate their love for Peking Opera, the "quintessence of China". Putting forward the desire to cultivate lifelong learning as a continuous goal, it can be seen how important music interest is to music learning, and the learning of popular music should grasp this point.

2. Choose appropriate pop music works

Pop music has a wide range of themes and has a two-sided impact on young people. Most students have difficulty distinguishing the good and bad of pop music. of.

Therefore, careful screening of works and selecting appropriate works is the first and most important task for music teachers to teach popular music classes. The selection of popular music must be conducive to the development of young people, with healthy and uplifting content and beautiful tunes. , works rich in connotation. Such as "Chinese", "Same Song", "Let the World Be Full of Love", "Snail", etc. Music teachers should have a clear attitude towards pop music with unhealthy ideas and resolutely exclude it from music classes. For example, "That Night", "How Many Good Sisters Do You Have", "Toilet", "The First Experience of Love", etc. So, what kind of popular music can be introduced into the classroom?

In addition, attention should also be paid to the musicality and style diversity of the selected works. The selection criterion should be "the ideological and musical qualities are as perfectly unified as possible" With diverse style characteristics, the musicality of the selected works can be measured from melody, sound, color, harmony, style and other aspects. At the same time, it should also show the diverse characteristics of popular music styles and cultivate students' personality and creativity.

3. How to introduce popular music

The form of introduction mentioned here is different from the simple introduction of new lessons in the classroom. In essence, it is more artistic and connotative. To put it simply, before recommending a piece of popular music, the teacher should explore its connotation from all levels and aspects, so that students can be interested and learn with purpose. It can also be said to be specific teaching methods, several of which are listed below.

1. Introduced from the creative background of pop music. Every excellent musical work has its own background, and pop music is no exception. Most excellent pop music has a certain social and cultural background and creative background. For example: "A True Story" is based on the true story of a girl who lost her life to protect the wild animal red-crowned crane. At the same time, the work also reflects the social and cultural background that promotes environmental protection. Therefore, focusing on the combination of popular music and its creative background is an excellent form that can deepen students' impressions and understanding of the works.

2. Introduced from the intersection of different music genres. Some pop songs have also been favored by teenagers because they have absorbed musical elements from operas and folk songs in folk music, adding a touch of traditional Chinese music. For example: "Ajie Drum", Tengger's "Mongols", Li Na's "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", etc. Although these songs are different from traditional ethnic music, they also have ethnic charm. Introducing this type of music in the classroom can not only bring young people closer to traditional Chinese folk music, but also encourage students to develop the habit of thinking and actively study the connotation of music and the nature of related cultural connections.

3. Introduce from the characteristics and advantages of popular music. Popular music has many characteristics and advantages that other forms of music do not have. For example, in rhythm teaching, if you make appropriate use of rap music popular in Europe and America, its clear and clear rhythm will definitely achieve unexpected results. In the process of creative teaching, teachers can make use of the simplicity of pop music tunes, the easy-to-understand lyrics, and the colloquial and natural nature of singing to allow students to try music creation. This kind of teaching can effectively protect students' interest in learning and is also very beneficial to improving students' musical quality.

4. Introduction from organizing music extracurricular activities. We can choose popular music that is suitable for students to listen to and play it in recess and extracurricular activities. This can regulate students' emotions, relax students' tension, and at the same time cultivate students' interest and habits in listening to music. Students develop good interests and music listening habits outside of class, which pave the way for music class teaching and make music classes much easier. At the same time, popular song karaoke competitions can be held in schools. On the one hand, they can guide students to treat pop music correctly. On the other hand, they can train students' stage performance ability and psychological quality through the competition, and cultivate students' self-confidence and expressiveness. You can also hold a "Classical Music, Ethnic Music, and Popular Music Quiz" competition, which can mobilize students' enthusiasm and initiative from multiple angles, and at the same time increase students' interest in classical music and ethnic music.

4. The introduction of popular music must be moderate

1. Be moderate in quality. Different pop music works have high and low quality, and even the same pop music work has different advantages and disadvantages when viewed from different angles. For example, the song "Mouse Loves Rice", which was once very popular on the Internet, is indeed ups and downs and catchy just from the melody of the song. However, judging from the lyrics, it is inevitable that they are vulgar and too straightforward, making it difficult to be elegant.

2. The quantity should be moderate. After all, pop music is a part of the vast music culture, and the introduction of pop music in music classes should be appropriate. We can neither reject pop music thousands of miles away, nor allow pop music to replace traditional national music and world classical music, allowing pop songs to overflow in middle school music classes. In the specific teaching process, according to the theme of a lesson, relevant local popular music can be selected to participate in the teaching, which will serve as the icing on the cake.

In short, as an important member of the music family, pop music should play its due role in music education. The influence of popular music on students is inevitable and cannot be ignored. Therefore, music education must strengthen research work in this area, focus on integrating theory with practice, be close to the reality of students’ music life, keep up with the pace of the times, correctly understand popular music, and cultivate innovative and comprehensive talents needed for my country’s socialist modernization construction in the new century. , lay a solid foundation for compound talents.

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