Theoretical Framework The ideologies of anti authoritarianism and social movement in anti flag`s protest song lyrics a critical discourse analysis
advocacy of progressive political action groups such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International. The consistency of this band for sounding social issue indicates this
band is suitable for analysis. The data use in the study taken from the albums of Anti-Flag. There are 15
song lyrics selected as the data. As the CDA is a multidisciplinary study, it may take much time to conduct the study. Wodak and Meyer 2001: 99 state “in any
practical sense there is no such thing as a “complete” discourse analysis”. They further add even a full analysis of short passage might take months and fill
hundreds of pages. Due to that, they consider that the complete discourse analysis of a large corpus or text or talk is therefore totally out of questions. Thus, the data
of the present study is limited to the 15 song lyrics in order to limit the focus of analysis and to make a better result of the study.
The song lyrics selected purposively for several reasons. Firstly, the lyric expresses protest; the lyric expresses disapproval and the resistance of the society
towards the power imbalance. For instance, the line is drawn in the sand S.11. Secondly, the lyric is ideological. It detected as the protest on capitalism and
nationalism and the protest as the social movement. Therefore, any clause carries another topic will not be included as the data. Thirdly, the lyrics are linguistically
analyzable; it consists of the clear participants and actions. To collect the data from song lyrics are quite uneasy since not all lyrics are written in the form
complete clause; such as in declarative or interrogative form. Some lyric are in imperatives and fragmented. For instance, don’t fly those stripes, those starts-and-
stripes for me, for me S5 – imperatives and half life – 4.5 billion S.13 – fragmented lyric. Therefore, the imperatives and fragmented lyric are omitted.
In collecting the song lyrics, some websites are used. This is because a single website has weakness in providing the data or information needed.
Therefore, the diverse websites are needed for the comparison and checking. They websites are such as www.azlyrics.com and www.metrolyrics.com. Those
websites are selected because of they are mostly used by the netizen. The completeness of the selected data displayed in the table below.
Table 3.1 List of the Selected Songs
No. Songs
Albums and Years of Release
1. Youve Got To Die For The
Government Die For The Government. 1996
2. Kill The Rich
Die For The Government. 1996 3.
Red, White And Brainwashed Die For The Government. 1996
4. Got the Numbers
A New Kind of Army 1999 5.
Stars and Stripes Underground Network 2001
6. This Machine Kills Fascists
Mobilize 2002 7.
Watch The Right Mobilize 2002
8. What’s the Difference
Mobilize 2002 9.
Class Plague BYO Split Series Volume IV
Anti-FlagBouncing Souls 2002
10. Protest Song
BYO Split Series Volume IV Anti-FlagBouncing Souls
2002
11. Tearing Down the Borders
The Terror State 2003 12.
You Can Kill the Protestor, But You Can’t Kill the
Protest. The Terror State 2003
13. Depleted Uranium is a War
Crime For Blood and Empire 2006
14. No Borders, No Nations
A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime 2007
15. 911 for peace
A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime 2007