摘要：乡土音乐是我国民族文化中一颗璀璨的明珠，它以婉转的曲调与写意抒情的风格造就了我国独特的音乐表现体系，其历史文化与人文精神是我国传统文化重要组成部分。近年来乡土音乐日益受到外来文化与外来音乐形式的挑战与冲击，加上其自身发展的局限性而形成了不乐观的发展形式，如何更好的传承和发扬乡土音乐是当前研究的一个重要课题。本文以乡土音乐的发展现状为切入点，结合当前社会发展形式与其自身特点试分析乡土音乐的发展趋势，并对中小学音乐课堂中乡土音乐教育的强化提出了建议。

关键词：乡土音乐；  发展趋势 ； 音乐课堂 

Abstract: Country music is a bring pearl in the national culture of China. It creates Chinese special musical expression system with its soft and pleasant tune as well as its lyrical style. Its history, culture and human spirit are important components of Chinese traditional culture. However, in recent years ,country music has suffered challenges due to influences from foreign cultures and music styles. This, together with its own limitation, has resulted in a slowed development of country music these days. The issue of how to inherit and carry forward country music has been an important topic in today’s study. This essay begins with stating the current development situation of country music, and tries to analyse its trend of development with today’s social development form and its own characteristics taken into consideration. It also comes up with some suggestions of reinforcing the education of country music in primary schools and middle schools’ music classes.

Keywords:  Country music ；    trend of development ；    music class