The main goals of a music appreciation course are to develop college students’ emotions, improve their musical abilities, and strengthen their conceptual framework. This essay primarily introduces the fundamental elements and instructional approach of a music appreciation course built on core literacy. In order to clarify the need for and orientation of basic literacy in college music appreciation teaching, as well as to understand the special value of the subject, we conducted research on the relationship between basic literacy and college music appreciation teaching. Based on this, a new detection algorithm that fuses feature fusion and AM (attention mechanism) is proposed, and visual AM is added to the algorithm based on AM features to help the agent learn the best course of action quickly. The findings indicate that this method’s cumulative normalized discount gain increases by about 0.07 and that the recommended list’s overall quality has significantly improved. The hit ranking is decreased by about 0.05 when compared to the collaborative neural network filtering method without AM.