Among them, music art is a cultural form that expresses human thoughts with music language. Music art, as a common music viewpoint and music activity behavior of a certain human group, can only be obtained through organized and purposeful music education behavior. Music education is also an important part of music culture. Only by placing music education research in the background of music culture can we pay more attention to the humanistic connotation and cultural significance of music education. Music education will be full of vitality. Music education is based on different cultural backgrounds, and different understandings of all kinds of music are inevitably influenced by its own traditional culture, so it has distinctive national characteristics, reflecting the traditional characteristics of national spiritual concepts, forms, behavioral norms and ways of thinking of different national music cultures, thus forming music education with national characteristics.
Since the 20th century, with the rapid development of economic globalization and mass media such as the Internet, China has become more closely connected with the world. The idea of multiculturalism was put forward by American educators in the 20th century, and gradually evolved into a universal international wave in the second half of the page, which was recognized by more and more people. Multicultural education has become a hot topic in today's world music education.
Briefly describe the development of multiculturalism in the United States and other countries.
After World War II, the United States, like many countries in Europe, America and Oceania, became a national melting pot. The concept of single culture has gradually evolved into the concept of group culture. These countries, which are composed of different nationalities, first put forward the concept of multiculturalism. With the blending and convergence of immigrant music and culture, multiculturalism has risen rapidly in the United States and even around the world.
The Influence of Multiculturalism on Music Education in China
With China's reform and opening up and its accession to the WTO, great changes have taken place in China's economic and cultural structure. It has become our consensus to promote music education and the development of national culture. In recent ten years, China began to pay attention to music education. 200 1 released "Full-time Music Curriculum Standards" is characterized by its emphasis on the combination of multiculturalism and local culture. In 2004, the international symposium on world multicultural music education was held, which marked.
How to deal with the impact of multiculturalism on China's local culture is a topic of great concern. Paying attention to our national culture, inheriting our national cultural traditions and carrying forward our national music culture should be the basic principles and policies of our music education.
1. Using multiculturalism to carry out music education needs to reflect the essence of music-truth, goodness and beauty, and give play to the unique commonness of art, but this does not violate the concept of taking aesthetics as the core value, and is also the basis of aesthetic education. Music education from the multicultural perspective emphasizes the aesthetic value and cultural heritage value of music. In the past, our music education ignored the cultural connotation and humanistic spirit of music and overemphasized the mastery of knowledge and skills. Multicultural music education should insist on teaching music as a culture and understand and respect other cultures through music. Music education in China should also conform to the current world trend, adopt the means of multicultural music education, actively accept and face the positive role of multicultural education, and let students know more about the world music culture in the increasingly international cultural exchange. Music education emphasizes the recognition and respect of different nationalities and different kinds of music in the world, abandons the prejudice of music value, guides people to realize the diversity of culture, helps students realize the richness and diversity of music culture of all nationalities in the world, and enhances their understanding, respect and love for learning different cultures, which is based on aesthetics.
2. Advocate multicultural education and the diversity of world cultures. Music is a world phenomenon. Music education guides students to learn, understand and respect different music and music creations in the world from the perspective of multiculturalism, absorbs and treats cultural diversity equally, and helps students form a global vision. It should be pointed out that the connotation and extension of music education from the multicultural perspective include music from the national music culture and other cultural backgrounds. It is necessary to cultivate students to love their own national music culture before learning and understanding other national cultures. Multi-perspective music education is an important channel for the inheritance and development of national music culture. Multicultural music education promotes the development of national music culture by drawing on and spreading foreign music culture. The two complement each other, and they can neither be conceited nor belittle themselves.
3. Music education in China should first highlight the cultural characteristics of the Chinese nation and guide young people to understand and love the music culture of the motherland. China is a multi-ethnic country with 56 nationalities. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called the country of etiquette, and by the time of the Tang Dynasty, it had become the peak of world art. The development of national music culture has a long history, rich and colorful contents, magnificent forms, and great national spirit and national art essence. Vocal music, singing and dancing, instrumental music, traditional Chinese opera, Quyi, etc. They are unique, unique and inexhaustible music treasure house culture to guide young people to inherit local ethnic characteristics and carry out music education.
4. In today's economic and political convergence, we need to pay attention to the conflict of national cultural characteristics, and we can't copy or rigidly copy the multi-cultures of immigrant countries to carry out music education in China, nor can we go to extremes in education. Copying or rigidly copying this practice will reduce the things with national characteristics in China, obliterate the regional individuality of different ethnic countries and weaken the inheritance of national culture; However, it is not advisable to blindly publicize the importance of multiculturalism or pay attention to all aspects of multiculturalism, some of which are just skimming the surface. Because culture is produced in the background of different countries and nationalities, multicultural teaching should adapt to the needs of different countries and different national conditions. China is a multi-ethnic country, and the music itself is diverse. First of all, we should inherit, protect and make good use of our own culture, and then study and make good use of it.
Here, I would like to make the following points for your reference:
1) update the previous music education concept, establish the basic concept of inheriting and promoting national cultural traditions, and flexibly use the multicultural music education concept.
2) Cultivate teachers with rich multicultural knowledge by "please come in" or "go out". "Please come in" means inviting relevant experts or scholars to give lectures and organize teachers to study; "Going out" means to arrange teachers to go out of school in a planned way and study systematically, which can make teachers listen more, see more and compare more.
3) Embody multiculturalism in the compilation of music teaching materials. Some existing teaching materials already contain multicultural materials, and some distinctive European and American music materials can be further compiled into classroom teaching materials, which is also the theme of multiculturalism.
In a word, multiculturalism is the product of Poland, and it will take some time and practice to enter our country and adapt to our national conditions. It is fundamental and suitable for China's national conditions and needs to establish the basic concept of inheriting national cultural traditions, carrying forward national music culture and embodying the value centered on aesthetics.