Construction in The Formation of Self Slank Lyrics

                 
ABSTRACT

Authors: M. Yasser Arafat

Slank is a great musical group in Indonesia. Slank has produced 15 albums, four live albums, the best 6 albums, some songs independently, and in 2008, Slank will produce an international album. Through music, Slank talk about anything; self, attitude, environment, state and nation, to the mundane everyday world. One thing that interests the author is that in the lyrics of the song, Slank shows individual processes that make up himself.Self is the achievement of individual existence as human beings who interact with themselves, society, culture and cuisine. Self is a mental process that is not determined by psychological consciousness, but by social processes. Sociology itself is something that covers the individual and society singularity. While the formation itself is a form of individual self that settles into a model of interaction in the social process. Despite being a model, the formation itself has never stopped in the social process. In theory, keterbentukan themselves in the lyrics of the song Slank can be tracked by using the theory of fundamental dialectic Peter L. Berger, the momentum of externalizing, internalizing, and obyektivasi.This is exactly what I researched in the 5 song lyrics Slank: Discarded Children, Generation Blue, Ngangkang, Viruses, and Slankisme, with hermeneutics as an approach, and Critical Discourse Analysis (AWK) as an analytical technique. Hermeneutics is used to interpret the lyrics of the song Slank as a spoken text. Researchers serve as interpreters who understand (Verstehen) the meaning of the text. While Awk is used to view the lyrics of the song as a discourse and meaning, influence, power, ideology, and interests.Analysis of song lyrics Slank produce three models of self formation. First, resistance. Second, the dialogue. Third, conformism. Three models are formed through a dialectical process of individuals who externalize, mengobyektivasi, and internalize in the world. The process is not stopped in the third model. He is always dialectic for individuals to live their lives in the world. Individual activities to build human order is impregnated in the formation itself makes it a sacred cosmos. That religion in the formation of self-present as a human phenomenon, not a religion as the revelation of God.As the text produced by the band, then the context of the actor's self-formation within the text of the song lyrics of Slank Slank it is itself. This can be proven by reconstruction efforts and the division of history into three phases Slank formations above self. While the historicity and the position of religion in it, formed by; mass culture, character artists, the culture of Rock N 'Roll, and secularization. Contextual understanding of the formation of self can be put in issue the nation's search for cultural self-direction of Indonesia. This corresponds with the reality of globalization and the existence of a tradition in Indonesia, or between a new progressive values ​​and old values ​​are conservative.