A Preliminary Study on Pop Music Teaching in Colleges and Universities

Pop music teaching is significant for music learners to cultivate good moral character and personality. As a very important part of higher education, the status of music teaching has been increasing in recent years. In the music teaching system in colleges and universities, we need to pay attention to make full use of pop music. So, in the environment where pop music becomes more and more popular among college students, how to carry out pop music teaching is what we must give full attention to. This paper analyzes the enormous influence of pop music on contemporary college students and the current situation of pop music teaching in higher education, and puts forward some countermeasures to improve the pop music teaching in colleges and universities. In recent years, the continuous progress of society leads people to pursue fine music art. Music is an influential comprehensive art, which is very effective on enhancing the capacity of modern aesthetic and cultivating sentiments of modern people. Given the depth of pop music into of people's daily life and work, college students naturally are affected profoundly. However, the current pop music teaching in colleges and universities is not enough, which makes public to wonder how to introduce pop music teaching course in college. Therefore, to get better results from college music education, we need to promote pop music teaching in music teaching at colleges and universities.