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The Role of Ethnic Music in Contemporary Music Education

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DOI: 10.23977/artpl.2025.060115 | Downloads: 22 | Views: 204

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Yaqi Mo 1

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1 Changsha Normal University, North Campus No.9, Anshawan Garden Road, Changsha, China

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Yaqi Mo

ABSTRACT

This study explores the role and significance of folk music in contemporary music education, analyzes the definition, characteristics of folk music, and its challenges and opportunities in the context of globalization and modernization. By combing the key role of folk music in the cultivation of music literacy, the enhancement of cultural identity, and aesthetic education, this study emphasizes the problems faced by folk music in the process of globalization, such as the dominance of the Western music system and the difficulty of cultural inheritance. It also points out that folk music education still has great development potential and opportunities through technological innovation, interdisciplinary teaching and global cultural integration. The study shows that through diversified teaching models and innovative curriculum design, folk music can not only enrich students' music literacy, but also enhance students' sense of identity with their own culture, and promote the diversity and inclusiveness of global music education through cross-cultural music exchanges. Therefore, folk music education occupies an irreplaceable position in the contemporary music education system and is of great significance for cultural inheritance and in.

KEYWORDS

Folk music, Multiculturalism, Music education, Cultural identity, Globalization

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Yaqi Mo, The Role of Ethnic Music in Contemporary Music Education. Art and Performance Letters (2025) Vol. 6: 107-114. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2025.060115.

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