The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has proposed clear goals for literary and artistic work in the new era.Implementing the education based on the Marxist view of literature and art with a people-centered approach is not only a requirement for cultivating virtue and talents but also a mission for music institutions of higher education.By investigating and analyzing the current educational state of such issues via ques- tionnaires and interviews in 14 colleges and universities,this article proposes a mode of one body with two wings to strengthen the education of Marxist view of literature and art,in which ideological and political courses will be treated as the core to promote the integration of course ideological and political education with artistic practice.