? Paper Keywords: middle school music classroom pop music significance
? Abstract: In today's open and pluralistic era, middle school music lessons are inevitably impacted by the outside world, including pop music. Whether we can treat this phenomenon correctly and introduce some elements of pop music into middle school music education is a problem worthy of discussion by music educators.
Whether pop music should be introduced into middle school music classes has always been a controversial issue. The author believes that in today's open and pluralistic era, if pop music is completely abandoned outside the high wall of middle school music education, it is tantamount to adopting the rule of law, and the result is definitely not satisfactory. The correct way should be to "guide the situation", face up to the impact of pop music on middle school music education, and skillfully introduce the positive factors into middle school music classroom, making it an important part of middle school music education and making contributions to improving middle school students' music literacy.
1 the development of middle school music teaching and the teaching significance of pop music
Middle school students are in a critical period of physical and mental development. They are full of curiosity and inquiry about everything, and at the same time they will try to examine various social phenomena with an imperfect outlook on life and world. Music education is a kind of aesthetic education, which plays an important role in students' physical and mental development. School is an important carrier of music education, so we should pay attention to the cultivation of students in all stages of school music education. "Pop music" refers to instrumental music and songs with short structure, popular content, lively form and sincere feelings, which are loved by the broad masses, widely sung or appreciated, popular for a while and even passed down to future generations. The characteristics of pop music determine that its target is the common people, especially the students at school. It's not as simple as a nursery rhyme. Pop music has a strong flavor of the times, close to life, easy-to-understand language, catchy melody, short and concise structure, easy to learn and remember, and sometimes cheerful and intense rhythm, passionate and sometimes low and tactful. With the rapid development of modern technology and the application of midi and electroacoustic instruments, it makes strange sound effects, which is more likely to attract the attention of middle school students. And those works that express emotions such as joy, longing for friendship, love, depression and sadness can especially arouse middle school students' emotional blending and singing. Therefore, if some positive elements in pop music can be skillfully applied to middle school music classes, it will help to better implement music teaching and promote the all-round development of students' knowledge, emotion, will and behavior.
2 the principle of pop music entering middle school music classroom
When introducing pop music into middle school music class, we should pay attention to the selection and selection of pop music, and we must grasp the following principles to make pop music better serve middle school music education.
2. 1 Selection principle
As a complex music type closely related to popular cultural life, pop music has both positive and negative contents, and there are bound to be some parts that are not suitable for promotion in middle school music classes, such as those pop songs that exaggerate loneliness, sadness and loss, express the attitude of dance academy and describe love. At the same time, middle school students are in a stage where their outlook on life and world is established but not yet mature, and they can't correctly judge some social phenomena. Therefore, when teachers quote pop music in music class, they reject and reject those pop music works with negative content and low style, and choose some works with positive content, fresh and unique style, high style and distinctive sense of the times.
2.2 the principle of moderation
Music education in middle schools uses fixed textbooks, which is a scientific system verified by teaching practice. As a beneficial supplement, pop music elements will play a positive role in promoting music education in middle schools. However, if teachers blindly favor pop music and ignore the teaching of the original music course content, it will not be conducive to the implementation of music teaching and the realization of teaching objectives, which is a typical putting the cart before the horse; Of course, if teachers ignore middle school students' hobbies and love of pop music, completely exclude them from music classes and ignore the reality of music education in middle schools, it will be behind closed doors and it is not desirable. Therefore, when introducing pop music into middle school music classroom, teachers should grasp the principle of moderation, so as to promote some positive factors in pop music to better serve middle school music education.
2.3 principle of appropriateness
When pop music is introduced into middle school music education classroom, teachers should pay attention to grasping the educational opportunity, make full use of the factors favorable to music education in pop music, and urge pop music to be used for the generation and realization of educational and teaching objectives, for the improvement of students' aesthetic quality and the acquisition of music skills. This requires teachers to have a comprehensive grasp of the curriculum system of middle school music education, students' psychological reality and the current music pop trend, so as to organically combine the three, and finally form a good situation of promoting middle school students' psychological development with middle school music courses as the mainstay and pop music as the supplement.
3 Effective strategies to play the positive role of pop music
If we can grasp the principles of distinction, moderation and appropriateness, it is very beneficial to introduce pop music into music classroom for middle school music education. Teachers can also adopt some effective strategies to promote pop music into middle school music classes and give full play to its positive and effective side.
3. 1 Organize students to "pick songs" for pop music.
As the organizer and guide of students' music learning, teachers may try their best to put themselves in the students' shoes, but they may not really be able to "think what students think". Therefore, teachers can organize students to participate in the "song-picking" activities of pop music. This kind of "song picking" is not in the traditional sense, but to investigate students' favorite pop songs and select the most popular tracks for students. On the premise of respecting students' hobbies, teachers correctly evaluate the aesthetic value of pop songs, guide and help students to distinguish, make students consciously abandon negative factors, and finally establish a correct aesthetic view. At the same time, teachers can also teach or quote these pop songs at appropriate times to better enrich their music teaching.
3.2 Guide students to analyze and understand pop music.
Middle school students are in the stage of perceptual knowledge. Although many of them like pop songs, they may just be a simple hobby and don't know the pop songs themselves and some specific contents they represent. Of course, this does not rule out that pop songs are vulgar because of their popularity and popularization. Students love pop songs, and teachers should fully tap their educational significance, help students analyze and understand pop music, and guide them to feel some positive thoughts and emotions in pop music, which should achieve the purpose of music education. For example, the idol singer Jay Chou's "Listen to Mom" has simple but affectionate lyrics: "Listen to Mom and don't let her get hurt. I want to grow up quickly and protect her. Beautiful white hair sprouts in happiness. The magic of angels, kindness in warmth ... "Most students like Jay Chou very much, and this song is bound to play a positive role in students' ideological education.
4 conclusion
Pop music mostly appears in the form of songs, which is closely related to the context of social development. It is a popular cultural phenomenon that focuses on entertainment. The goal of middle school music teaching is to cultivate students' ability to sing and feel music with expression. Cultivate students' ideals through musical images, cultivate students' noble sentiments, enlighten students' wisdom, and make students develop physically and mentally healthily. Because pop songs are what students think, see and feel in their daily lives, they are stored in their hearts, so once they are expressed through singing, it is easy to produce a strong sound between the singer and the audience. Teachers can make full use of the positive musical elements in pop music, let students fully understand the richness and broadness of human music culture, guide students to treat and accept pop music correctly, improve and enrich students' music appreciation ability, and make contributions to cultivating talents with noble musical aesthetic taste.