SOCIAL PROTEST AS REPRESENTED IN TERRORIZER SONGS

A Scientific Publication

Submitted as a partial Fulfillment of the Requirements to achieve

Sarjana Sastra Degree in English Literature Department
Faculty of Literature, Culture, and Communication
Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

By
Ecsha Mahendra
1800026291

ENGLISH LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATION
UNIVERSITAS AHMAD DAHLAN
2022
 SOCIAL PROTEST AS REPRESENTED IN TERRORIZER SONGS

Ecsha Mahendra
English Literature
Universitas Ahmad
Dahlan
Yogyakarta
mecsha@rocketmail.com

Article Info ABSTRACT

Article History
Article Received
Article Accepted

Keywords

I. INTRODUCTION disagreement on what qualifies as a

Music is a practice that takes place in
specific social interactions and places that
are the result of complex combinations of
culture, class, gender and other factors in
daily life experience. Music and musical
representations are social and political
actions that are contextualized. This
perspective switches our focus from
"which music is political?" to "what are
the specific politics of a musical
composition, and why is it political?"
(Ballinger, 1995). There is a lot of
"protest song." As a form of society to
protest towards authority. Weinstein
defines "protest song" as "an opposition to
the policy, as action against the people
with power that is rooted in a sense of
injustice," and then goes on to discuss the
difficulty of classifying protest songs
solely based on their lyrics, the effects that
a song has, or even how to define "people
in power" or "injustice." (Weinstein,
2006). Denisoff previously characterized a
protest song as "a socio-political message

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II. METHODOLOGY Publishing Limited.
This paper is methodologically qualitative,
by gathering the data and presenting it into
descriptive. The researcher uses some
methods to conduct the study will be
explained as follows:
1. The Source of Data
a. Main Data
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b. Supporting Data
The researcher gathers another data from
many sources such as
2. Data Technique
The researcher uses some techniques in
collecting data in this study
3. Analyzing Data Technique
III.RESULT AND DISCUSSION

IV. CONCLUSION

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