Ideology and Discourse Ideology
innovation of punk rock at the level of musical sound, since it sounds like noisy as it somewhat full of screams. In the case of lyrics, they are realistic. The lyrics
presents the social issues. Stuart Borthwich and Ron May as cited in Ferdinandi, 2010: 17 explains that punk “places a lyrical emphasis on exposing working-
class dissatisfaction with ‘normal’ society, and frequently focuses upon concerns that are particular to young people. Not merely about it, the punk’s lyrics present
their invitation for listeners to a revolution. The counterculture, again, is the rebellion against the traditional culture.
Hebdige as cited in Ferdinandi, 2010: 15 says that the “subculture tends to presented as independent organism, functioning outside the larger social, political
and economic contexts”. According to Brake 1985, subcultures arise as the attempts to resolve collectively experience problems resulting in contradiction in
the social structure. Therefore, punk is not merely about the being; behave like punk, costume like punk or enjoy the punk music. However, punk is about doing;
the loyality to the cultural sentiment that makes up the punk movement. Fox 1987: 379 clarifies that, the “the contempt for authority and the conventional
culture was in fact, such an essential values for punk that if one expressed prosystem sentiments or support for the present administration, one would not be
considered a member, no matter how well one looked the part.” Punk’s ideology can be seen in the lyrics. In punk rock, there is an atraction
to telling the truth about the world in the sort of language. In the song, God Save the Queen by Sex Pistols which has sevent times repetition of lyric, ‘there is no
future’. This song is typically nihilism. The nihilistic belief lack of positive belief PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
or apathy. It’s counter idealism is expression of opposition. The songs stories the major economic depression that occured in the United Kingdom during the late
1970s left an entire generation on welfare without hope for steady employement. The issues of the British class sytem, instituonalized poeverty and unemployment
become the background of the song. The oppositional idealism has voices fierce and passionate opposition to a wide array of social realities. The lyric presents
opposition can be seen in Ant-Flag song lyric entitled, Stars and Stripes. The lyric, ‘don’t fly those stripes, those stars and stripes for me’ repeats 14 times. The
‘stars and stripes’ are refers to American flag. Since the flag symbolizes the nation, hence, the lyrics presents the rejection of nationalism, anti-nationalism.
As the like culture has its counterculture, so does the ideology. The word, anti in anti-nationalism above indicates as counter-ideology. The punk rock
ideology is proposed to fight the well-being ideology. Like nationalism, where netizen has to submit themselves for the nation, anti-nationalism refuse the –ism.
The emergence of the idealism is also due to the reality exist in the nation. It could be the social disappointment for nation that cannot support the citizen
needs and expectations.