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A DESCRIPTION OF MORAL VALUE IN JASON MRAZ LOVE ALBUM A PAPER BY CAMELA SARI GINTING REG. NO. 152202065 DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA MEDAN 2016 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA AUTHOR’S DECLARATION I am, CAMELA SARI GINTING declare that I am the sole author of this paper. This paper except where the reference is made in the text of this paper. This paper contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a paper by which I have qualified for or awarded degree. No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgement in the main text of this paper. This paper has not been submitted for award of another degree in any tertiary education. Signed : Date : November 29th, 2018 i UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA COPYRIGHT DECLARATION Name : CAMELA SARI GINTING Tittle of paper : A DESCRIPTION OF MORAL VALUE IN JASON MRAZ LOVE ALBUM Qualification : D-III / AhliMadya Study Program : English I am willing that my paper should be available for reproduction at the discretion of the liberatarian of the Diploma III English Department Faculty of Culture Studies USU on the understanding that users are made aware of their obligation under law of the Republic of Indonesia. Signed : Date : November 29th, 2018 ii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACK This paper entitled A Description of Moral Values in Jason Mraz Love Album.The main focus of this research is to find the moral values contained in the lyrics of Jason Mraz Love album.This paper applied descriptive qualitative research methods. The data source of this research is a Jason Mraz Love album. The technique used to describe the data by: 1. read the lyrics carefully and repeatedly. 2. Understand the content of lyrics. 3. Listening. 4. write and make some note,interpret the meaning and make conclusion.. The result of the study is presented in the form ofparagraphs. In the song’s lyrics ofJason Mraz Love Album, the autors found 3 data in form of Sincerity and 2 data in the form of peach-loving. Moral values also refer to somethingthat is good or bad. One communicate with each other with a standart of moral ethical. So, the moral is a good way to behave well in life. Keywords : Moral Values , Song Lyrics, Jason Mraz Love Album iii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRAK Makalah ini berjudul “A Description of Moral Value in Jason Mraz Love album” . Fokus utama dari penelitian ini adalah menemukan nilai-nilai moral yang terkandung dalam lirik album Jason Mraz Love. Makalah ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Sumber data penelitianiniadalah album Jason Mraz Love.Teknik yang digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan data dengan: 1. Membaca lirik dengan seksama dan berulang-ulang. 2. Memahami isi lirik. 3. Mendengarkan. 4. Tulis dan buat beberapa catatan, interpretasikan makna dan buat kesimpulan . Hasil penelitian disajikan dalam bentuk paragraf. Dalam lirik lagu Jason Mraz Love Album, para penulis menemukan 3 data dalam bentuk Ketulusan dan 2 data dalam bentuk peach-loving. Nilai moral juga mengacu pada sesuatu yang baik atau buruk. Satu berkomunikasi satu sama lain dengan standar etika moral. Jadi, moral adalahcara yang baik untuk berperilaku baik dalam hidup Kata kunci: Nilai Moral, LirikLagu, Jason Mraz Love album iv UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Alhamdulillah, I would like to thank and praise to Allah SWT for blessing and give me opportunity, health, and ability to accomplish this paper. Afterwards, invocation and greetings I deliver to the last prophet Muhammad SAW who has brought us into time humanities. I would like thank to Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S as The Dean of Faculty of Cultural studies, University of Sumatera Utara I would like to thank the head of Diploma III Engish Study Program and also my supervisor, Dra. SwesanaMardiaLubis, M.Hum. who has shared time to guide me in the process of my study. Then i would like to express my special gratitude for her time, advice, and guidance to correct this paper during the process of writing. The most special thank is dedicated to both of my beloved parents, Arianto Ginting and Afidah who have given me love, cares, advices, supports, motivations, financial, attentions and always pray for me in order to get my best. v UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA I would like thank to my dear friends Nur imaniah, Nadya daulay, Vivi Armayani, Wen Denis Simahate, M.Arief, Helfida Sembiring, Syamtia Weni, Mutia Putri, Faradina tasha, Alya Putri. Who always help and support me every time in every condition, thanks for their love, care and other things that help me complete this paper. I would like thanks to all my friends in Diploma III English study Program. Thanks for happiness. Finally, I do realize the paper is still far from being perfect. There I welcome any constructive criticism and suggestion toward this paper. Medan, November 29th, 2018 The writer, CAMELA SARI GINTING REG.NO. 152202007 vi UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR DECLARATION ………………………………………... i COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ........................................................ ii ABSTRACK .......................................................................................... iii ABSTRAK ............................................................................................ iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................. v TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................... vii 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 1.1 Background of the Study ............................................................. 1 1.2 Problem of the Study ................................................................... 3 1.3 Purpose of the Study ................................................................... 4 1.4 Scope of the Study ..................................................................... 4 1.5 Method of the study ................................................................... 4 2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ..................................... 2.1 Literature ................................................................................... 5 2.2 Types of Moral Value ............................................................... 9 2.3 Definition of Song Lyric .......................................................... 13 3. DESCRIPTION OF PAPER TOPIC ............................................. 3.1 Sincerity .................................................................................. 14 3.2 Peach loving ............................................................................ 20 4. CONCLUSION AND SUGESTION ................................................ 3.1 Conclusion................................................................................ 24 3.2 Sugestion .................................................................................. 25 REFERENCES ...................................................................................... 26 APPENDICES ....................................................................................... 27 vii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Language is a network of relationship. As human being, people really need language to do interaction and communication to each other. As Clark (1997:3) said “language stands at the centre of human affairs, from the most prosaic to the most profound”. It means that language is very important in life and is the power of expressing tought and feelings. Language is also the expression of ideas by writing or any other instrumentality. There are so many ways to express someone‟s tought and feeling by using language, such as : by mucis, poems, short story, speech, etc. Music is the expression of someone‟s soul. As Machlis (1995) said “music has been called as the language of emotion”. It means that by music we can know if someone is in sadness or happiness by the music that they heard. As Aristoteles (www.google.com) said “music has a troubled heart, has a recreactionaltheraphy and foster patriotism. Music take a big part of every moment in our life. Because of that, music has the effect that could influence someone to act to do something. It can be a good thing or bad thing. In addition, music is a part of literary work. Literary work is the art of written work. Literary work is commonly classified into two major forms; fiction and nonfiction. The kind of literary works are poem, song lyrics, novel, movie, drama, and etc. Music and literary works are very useful since they have various values such as moral, religious,educational, and 1 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA sociological values. A good piece of literature is something that is capable to reflect the principles of humanity Generally, every writer has plenty of imagination stated in the lyrics. The message containsmany ideas, such as social, satire, motivation, education, till a romantic. Literature is also one of media to show some of the meaning, one of them is moral value that presented by author. By the songs the author tries to teach and deliver good moral for the people. People have to improve and maintain their good moral. Morality is common word to say, but it is very difficult to imply in human‟s daily life. Morality is something that must be owned by human because without morality human will not br respected by other people. It will be easy for people to socialize with other and they will be accepted in the