Research on the Integration Path of Red Music into University Ideological and Political Education Based on the Music-Integrated-Into-Thought Framework

Abstract

Red music, long treated as background illustration in university ideological and political education, is redefined here as a primary pedagogical force through the “Music Integrated into Thought” model. The framework unites political communication, aesthetic experience and praxiological cultivation in a single paradigm, extending the affective turn in values education. A four dimensional implementation matrix was designed and validated in twelve universities across eastern, central and western China: curriculum fusion that embeds historically sequenced musical modules into required politics courses; activity extension that blends immersive digital scenes with physical rehearsals and community performances; teacher communities dually trained in musicology and ideological literacy; and process oriented assessment that tracks value perception, civic engagement and creative output. Survey data from 2860 students show patriotic value endorsement rising by thirty one percent and course engagement by forty percent compared with control cohorts, while previous bottlenecks of unequal resources, faculty dual competency shortage and student fatigue are significantly reduced. By converting red cultural capital into scalable educational assets the study offers an evidence based replicable pathway for cultivating socialist core values and contributes a Chinese exemplar to global debates on arts based citizenship education.