Abstract
Islam is often referred as being a radical movement or activity. Sabyan Gambus, through their song cover, responses to the situation in their song “Deen Assalam”. This song was created as an effort to minimize and reduce the society’s misthinking on the concept and implementation of Islamic teaching. Thus, a study of values implied in the song becomes essential to view such a perception shift within the society as a legitimation upon the work as well as the positioning of Islam in the structural world of Indonesian people. An analysis of the song lyrics is, accordingly, essentially needed.The theory of Riffaterre is applied to study the song lyric. Meanwhile, a theory of Bourdieu is employed to review the legitimation achievement of the work production practices. The behaviorism method is used in analyzing the agents’ behaviors during the production process to reach a legitimation that can be considered as shifting of position and perception of the society.The legitimation of Sabyan Gambus’ works by analyzing the response from the society can be considered as some possibilities of the emergence of a more moderate Islam in Indonesia. The analysis of internal meaning may also create some possibilities to audience to gain the power of value that affects the power relation and other external factors. Therefore, both internal and external work analyses are necessary to show the influence of work production and its legitimation achievement on its position and perception of the society.
Highlights
There are some phenomena where society problems are being connected to religious issues that change them into a sensitive problem that potentially develops into a social conflict
Sabyan Gambus is an Islamic religious music band in Indonesia that has a characteristic of producing simple melody yet meaningful lyrics
The musical concept of Sabyan Gambus that chooses pop genre – the most favorite genre – by featuring religious materials to make them accepted by the society
Summary
There are some phenomena where society problems are being connected to religious issues that change them into a sensitive problem that potentially develops into a social conflict. A cultural transformation is to result in changing the way of thinking of a nation (Harmawati, Abdulkarim, & Rahmat, 2016) This change is exploited to implant radicalism values by extremist group to individuals who are possible to be influenced. Those methods, were being responded by Sabyan Gambus group to produce works giving contradictive values to such radical concept This production is treated as a social production functioning as a reinforcement media on the changing of (Sujatmiko & El Ishaq, 2015). In the mid of 2018, Youtube recorded 1,871,743 subscribers of the official Youtube Sabyan Channel; in addition, the subscribers of Official Sabyan Gambus account reached 181,598 people This phenomenal group brought them to public appreciation for bringing the religious music to the same level with the pop. The legitimation achievement was treated as a basis to assess their responses to the issue of radicalism through their work response and the shift of society’s perspective
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