The Concept of Mother in Songs: A comparative study Ruhaliah Ruhaliah, Iskandarwassid Iskandarwassid Departemen Pendidikan Bahasa Sunda FPBS Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia Bandung, Indonesia ruhaliah@upi.edu Abstract—The study of the lyrics of this song is motivated by the many songs with the theme of mothers, in various languages. However, it appears that no research has been conducted on the phenomenon. This research was conducted with the aim of describing the speech style of the songs, describing their contents, and describing the values contained in them, especially from the viewpoint of education. The method used is descriptive in that the findings or conclusions of the study are drawn based on existing data in the field, not from the results of treatment or experimental data. In accordance with the purpose of the study, sampling was carried out using a purposive type of sample. Only mothers-themed songs were used as data sources in this study. The results of the study found three types of poetry and a number of moral and ethical values contained in them. Keywords—value; song poetry; mother' theme I. INTRODUCTION Mother is a woman who is always related to humans. Even with all living things. Mother certainly loves her child wholeheartedly, but the child's love for her mother is not necessarily as big as the mother's love for her child. Discussions about mothers will never be completed because they can be reviewed from various angles. Religion, language, culture, art, even psychology. Various song poems (texts) generally accompany songs that are played, although there are also songs that are only presented through instruments (waditra). Choosing one of the two methods is certainly not arbitrary. Artists who present complete performances of song lyrics with accompaniment of songs (music) - or vice versa -, such as wanting the beauty of auditive accompanied by the impression of emotions through meaningful lyrics. Conversely, the presentation of songs (instrumental) without the possibility of poetry with the aim that the auditive pleasure is received in full by the listener, without being disturbed by the meaning of the verses of the poem. As in literary works, song poetry can be grouped according to the genre, successively epic (narrating, telling), lyrics (outpouring of the heart, expression), and dramatic (dialogue with oneself). Likewise with the theme, various groupings can be done. Based on the theme, among others, it will be called the existence of children's songs, love songs, religious songs, heroic songs. The grouping is clearly based on the theme of the song, which is concluded based on the contents of the poem or song text. In Indonesia, songs are categorized into dangdut songs, pop songs or popular songs, keroncong songs, kasidah songs, nasyid, and classical songs. Pop songs are those that are known and liked by many people. Dangdut songs are rhythmic songs of Malay pop songs, rhythms of dangdut orchestras. Keroncong songs are music rhythmic songs that are characteristic of keroncong musical instruments, namely rugs, selos, and melody guitars that are played in a row. Kasidah is a form of poetry originating from Arabic literature, idolatry (satire, religious), usually sung (dubbed). Classic songs, are like classical art, namely simple, harmonious, and not excessive. In the above definitions there is no direct connection between the type of song and the verse or the text. In reality the grouping of songs will be directly related to the poetic themes. The theme songs of mothers studied in this paper are songs whose contents are about poetry. This group of songs about mothers is considered important to study or do research, with several kinds of considerations. First, songs about mothers are fairly productive. Second, long and continue to be created. Third, a comparative study needs to be done because poetry of mother-themed songs is not only in Indonesian, but also in regional languages (including Ambonese, Batak, Javanese, Minang, Sundanese), and foreign languages (among others in Arabic, English, Japanese, Korean). Based on the search results, which were carried out in this series of studies, there were no publications on the results of previous studies on poetry of songs or texts of these mother- themed songs. This emptiness is one of the incentives to do this research. Another more important impetus is the result of pre- research which illustrates the existence of educational values in the texts or poems of the songs. The discovery of these values through assessment is assumed to be beneficial for actual life, especially in the field of education, both formal and informal. As it should be admitted that songs, song poems, or song texts, as works of art will not only give aesthetic satisfaction (Dulce), but also will provide life benefits (utile) as a branch of culture, as stated by Wellek and Warren [1]. The purpose of this study is closely related to the exposure of the last section. This study was conducted with the aim of (1) describing the values contained in the text or poetry of mother-themed songs, (2) describing the grouping of texts UPI 2nd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and Education (ICOLLITE 2018) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 257 260