Semantic Analysis on Iwan Fals’ songs

ABSTRACT

Semantic is the study of linguistics meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. Semantic quite important not only for those who want to communicate better in the society. Semantic also can be used to understand a literary work like songs. Song is any poem even there is an attention of it being set to music. In this thesis, the researcher chooses the literary problem about song. It is Iwan Fals’ song especially “In Collaboration With” album. The study is limited on meanings and messages and therefore, the title of her thesis is Semantic Analysis on Iwan Fals’ Songs.

The problems to be discussed are: (1) what are the meanings found in Iwan Fals’ songs? (2) What are messages found in Iwan Fals’ songs? The objectives of the study are to find out the meanings implied and the messages that exist in Iwan Fals’ songs.
In this study, the researcher takes ten songs, by the way all of songs in Iwan Fals’ songs in the “In Collaboration With” album. The design of the study is descriptive qualitative. In the research, the researcher used some books of their works to support this thesis.

The finding shows that in the Iwan Fals’ songs have hidden meaning, like his song has title “Hadapi Saja” (let’s just accept it). It is inspirated by his son was died.

Finally, the researcher that this thesis still weaknesses and is far from being perfect, therefore, it is suggested that the further researcher conduct similar study with broader scope and more complete discussions. Anyway, she hopes that it will be useful for the readers especially the student of State Islamic University of Malang.