War as Holiday: Ideological Representation and Counter-Conduct Resistance in Green Day’s Lyrics
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Punk rock music has frequently been associated with social and political criticism, yet its ideological representation and resistance mechanisms remain underexplored in linguistic and cultural studies. This study examines how ideology is represented and resisted in Green Day’s Holiday, released on the American Idiot (2004) album, within the context of post-9/11 American politics. Specifically, it aims to describe how the song constructs the ideology of war through Stuart Hall’s constructionist perspective and to analyze how its lyrics reflect Michel Foucault’s concept of counter-conduct as a form of resistance. A descriptive qualitative approach with content analysis was employed, using the song lyrics as the primary cultural text, while Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony served as a conceptual bridge between the two theoretical frameworks. The findings reveal that the song deconstructs the ideological normalization of war through symbolic re-articulation and de-naturalization while simultaneously promoting counter-conduct by rejecting passive citizenship and militaristic nationalism. These findings demonstrate that punk rock lyrics function as a powerful site of ideological contestation and contribute to interdisciplinary studies of language, popular culture, and critical discourse.
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