Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Music is often used uniquely as a media to deliver a message through a song. A song, which is considered as an effective and universal media can drop concepts, messages, and expression of its creator to its listener through lyric, music composition, music instrument, and the way the creator sing the song. The concept in a song can be a love expression, criticizing, outrage, complain etc. all things above are arranged in beautiful and poetic words. It is no wonder that lyric of song, as a part of music frame, is a dominant factor in delivering messages that finally will be enjoyed by its listener. William Moylan said in his book the art of recording: understanding and crafting the mix; music that includes a text, such a song, will communicate each other concepts. These work mats tell a story, deliver the author’s impression of an experience, present asocial commentary, etc. the interplay between the music and the drama of the text is often an important contributor to the total experience of these works 1 . Music contain of lyric that will communicate some concepts. Some of these concepts bring impression and experiences of its creator that result some comments or social opinions. Music also often used as a tool to bring the ideology 1 Hedra Krisdiato, pesan Lirik lagu, accessed on November 2, 2009. http:one.indoskripsi. Com judul-skripsiilmu-komunikasipesan-lirik-lagu, 2010 1 2 of its creator. Interaction between music and drama in text usually can be an important contributor to the entire system’s works. Lyric is words in a song. Lyric can be written as a completion or addition after the music itself. The Meaning of lyric can be implicit or explicit, and sometimes lyric has abstract meaning or furthermore cannot be understood. The characteristic of lyric as a message tool is quite different with others, so that we need special method in interpreting the important message in. of course, it cannot be concluded easily that people understand the message of the lyric of the song they hear. As one of literature, song has an art value that should have many meanings that is relative to most people. To enjoy a song, we can do like what other people do, but to know the message in, we need more capability than the others do. Lyric of song, in some cases, has similarities to poetry such as both poems and song lyrics rely on the potent use of language; both engage their readers and listeners on an emotional level both require a skilled use of word sounds and rhyming. In general, the same virtues that make a good poem—effective imagery, compelling themes, emotional evocativeness and originality—also make a good song lyric. Poetry and song lyrics both benefit from well-applied poetic devises, such as metaphor, simile, symbol, alliteration, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia. Moreover, both rely on the effective use of descriptive imagery. In other word, lyric of song is one of literature that is interesting to analyze as well as poetry. 3 The Cold War Russian: 1947–91 was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition existing after World War II 1939–1945, primarily between the Soviet Union and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, particularly the United States. Although the primary participants military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to states deemed vulnerable, proxy wars, espionage, propaganda, a nuclear arms race, economic and technological competitions, such as the Space Race. 2 Despite being allies against the Axis powers and having the most powerful military forces among peer nations, the USSR and the US disagreed about the configuration of the post-war world while occupying most of Europe. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied, annexing some as Soviet Socialist Republics and maintaining others as satellite states, some of which were later consolidated as the Warsaw Pact 1955–1991. The US and some western European countries established containment of communism as a defensive policy, establishing alliances such as NATO to that end. In the 1980s, the United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures against the USSR, which had already suffered severe economic stagnation. Thereafter, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika reconstruction, reorganization, 1987 2 Anonymous, Cold War, accessed on February 5, 2010. http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiCold_War , p. 1 4 and glasnost openness, ca. 1985. The Cold War ended after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, leaving the United States as the dominant military power, and Russia possessing most of the Soviet Unions nuclear arsenal. The Cold War and its events have had a significant impact on the world today, and it is commonly referred to in popular culture. The Cold War was reflected in culture through music, movies, books, and other media. Therefore, we can find many kind of music that tells us about how the cold war was. Many musicians, in creating their lyrics were influenced by the cold war situation. The situation during the cold war was unstable and vulnerable to be an open war. Cold war definitely had caused instability in economic, politic and social in all over the world. Therefore, the musicians try to warn the people that war just lead them to damage and destruction only. Some musician during the cold war especially in1980’s, such as American metal group band white lion with When the children cry, Michael learn to rock band with Sleeping child, Billy Joe with Leningrad, cranberries group band with War child and American musician bob Dylan with Russian, had involve them selves in campaigning anti war. What makes the writer interested to those lyric above is that the entire musician used child word many times in their lyrics. In addition, they write it during the cold war, that is the time between 1980 to early 1990’s. Based on those facts, the writer will try to analyze the connotative meaning of the child words in their lyric and to reveal the true meaning using connotative semiotic approach of Roland Barthes. 5

B. Focus of the Study