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C. Research Question
1. What are the meaning of the two Punk Song Lyrics?
2. What kinds of symbols are utilized in the two punk songs lyric and what
do they mean? 3.
What are the themes of the two songs?
D. Significance of the research
The significance of the study is to give the advantages for the readers and the writer himself, to have deeper knowledge about kinds of symbol, and their
meaning. Lastly, the writer hopes that the study can give inspiration to other students who want to develop the similar study in the future.
E. Research Methodology
1. Objective of the Study
The objectives of the study are:
a. To know the utilized symbols which existing in these two songs,
American Idiot Green Day, God Save the Queen Sex Pistols.
b. To describe the meaning of symbol in these two punk songs.
c. To describe the suitable themes of these two punk songs.
2. Method of the Research
The writer uses qualitative method in analyzing American Idiot Green Day, God Save the Queen Sex Pistols which contain some symbols.
Based on the qualitative method, the data of this research will be collected, interpreted, and concluded.
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3. Unit of Analysis
The analysis unit in this research is the two of punk song lyrics American Idiot Green Day, God Save the Queen Sex Pistols these songs were containing
symbols that should be analyzed by the researcher.
4. Instrument of the Research
The researcher himself as an instrument and the subject of this study, he gets all information by reading some books and other references. Lastly, he will
analyze the selected data from any kind of resources.
5. Technique of Data Analysis
All the data that have been included in this research will he analyzed through descriptive analysis technique. There are four ways that have been
implemented by the writer in analyzing the data 1 choosing the songs which contain symbols; all the songs are punk – songs 2 reading the songs intensely,
and classifying the symbols from the songs 3 categorizing the symbols in the table, so that they can be understood easily 4 interpreting the meaning of that
symbol and proposing a theme in each song.
F. Place and Time
The writer accomplishes this thesis in the beginning of semester 9, 2009 2010 in English Department, Adab and Humaniora Faculty, State Islamic
University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Definition of Music
Music, an art of organized sounds, is virtually limitless in variety and in the power to enchant and challenge our ears. However, because it never holds
still, and we can neither see nor touch it, understanding music can be an elusive thing, and some of the world’s greater music may challenge the unprepared
listener’s ears. The intent of composer, and the performer’s contributions, the greater will be our intellectual, emotional, aesthetic rewards for listening to any
kind of music.
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Music was associated with melody, words, and rhythm, including dancing; instrumental accompaniment to song was by duplicating the melodic line and
adding occasional heterophony but without counterpoint to or chordal accompaniment of the melody.
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Music is a form of art. Edgard Varese defined it as organized sound. Music expresses our feelings as well emotions in a melodious and pleasant way. Is
there anybody who doesn’t like this form of art? Read on to know the various types of music.
Different types of music help in soothing one’s disturbed soul, in the growth of concentration and also enliven us to live life to the fullest. There are
varied genres of music as people have different tastes. For e.g., classical music, rock, jazz, metal, rap, folk etc. But the objective remains the same. The aim of all
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Jean Ferris 2002, Op.cit. P.xxi
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K. Marie Stolba, The Development of Western Music. New York, McGrawHill, 1998, p.10
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music is to touch the core of the heart and thus music can be called an expression of our heart’s saying.
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B. Types of Music
1. Jazz
Jazz is a musical form which originated at the beginning of the 20th
century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
This type of music is featured by strong and complex rhythms. The main musical instruments used for jazz music are cornet, trumpet or violin, that helps
carry the melody. Fast tempos, syncopated rhythms, and dance band timbres replaced the sedate ballrooms dances played by the string orchestras of an earlier
time. As dance rhythms became more complex, solo instrumental lines more independent and instrumental timbres more varied.
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2. Blues
The foundations of jazz, primarily an instrumental music, lie in the blues, a vocal form whose origins, although stubbornly obscure, derive from African
American traditions and date from some in the nineteenth century. Just when the blues emerged is the subject of dispute, but certainly after the Civil War of what
we call the blues was heard from slaves and from newly emancipated black, who often found their lives more rather than less difficult than before they received
their freedom.
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http:www.buzzle.comeditorials5-14-2002-18440.asp accessed on 14
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of January 2010
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Jean Ferris 2002, op.cit. p. 151
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Ibid
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3. Classical
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