Admiral Indra Supardan, 2013 “American Idiot”: Examining Readers’ Subject Position In One Of Green Day’s Albums
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and series of attacks were launched on America BBC.co.uk. Furthermore, the reign of G.W. Bush put its society on panic because of his controversial series of policies,
including the agenda of Iraq invasion. 2.
Ideology: Theoretically speaking, ideology is what people think before people think or act Nealon Giroux, 2003. Thus, the ideology is hidden behind the text.
Critically speaking, the term ideology itself refers to the ideology initiated mainly by Beard 2001 and Lye 1997.
3. Song Lyrics: In defining the term lyrics, it is often associated with the literary
work which is written based on someone`s point of view which is subjective. In accordance to Online Etymology Dictionary,
the term lyrics refer to “words of popular song”, that consists of choruses and verses that main message of the lyrics
itself can be told whether implicitly or explicitly. 4.
Readers’ Subject Position: Defining readers’ subject position might engage in a discussion about a moment where a reader interprets the text’s implicit ideology—
known by Stephens 1992 as a process of subjection. He further asserts that literary text, as an object of reading, and reader as a subject both have their own sense of self.
Therefore, a reader’s subject position will always confront with a numerous subject positions within a text.
1.8. Organization of Paper
The paper will be organized as follows:
Admiral Indra Supardan, 2013 “American Idiot”: Examining Readers’ Subject Position In One Of Green Day’s Albums
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CHAPTER I
This chapter contains background of the study, research questions, aims of the study, scope of the study, significance of the study, clarification of the terms, and
organization of the paper.
CHAPTER II
It consists of theoretical review that provides a basis for conducting the research problems.
CHAPTER III
This section contains the research methodology, discussing the steps and procedures of the study, and the data resources in conducting the study.
CHAPTER IV
In this part the result of the research will be presented. This chapter contains the research findings and discussion.
CHAPTER V
This last chapter contains the interpretation toward the result of the research in a form of conclusion and suggestion in accordance with the research.
Admiral Indra Supardan, 2013 “American Idiot”: Examining Readers’ Subject Position In One Of Green Day’s Albums
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1. Research Problem
The writer would like to examine readers’ subject position in Green Day`s album American Idiot. To do so, here is a question that the writer would like to
establish: In what ways does Green Day’s album American Idiot ideologically position
the implied readers in opposite to the USA political agenda?
3.2. Research Method
This study employs qualitative approach in accomplishing the main goal of the study. As it is cited in Moleong 2011, as well mentioned in Miles
Huberman`s Qualitative Data Analysis 1994:1 this kind of study will not deal with numbers. Therefore, he establishes the definition of qualitative method through
Bogdan and Taylor 1975:5; that the study collects descriptive data, which deals with written text or spoken text of an individual.
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The study focuses on describing, interpreting, analyzing, and criticizing the ideology of Green Day`s album American Idiot 2004. In doing so, the tool in
dissecting the ideology relies on Beard`s 2001 a context framework and Lye`s 1997 Ideological Analysis. The role of Lye`s approaches itself is more applicable
for this study. Thus, the role of Beard theory itself is operated as the main framework; so that ideology could be identified in certain ways.
In addition, the study involves Stephen’s 1992 frame of narrative transactions to seek the ideological position of the album through the perspective of
narrative process. Furthermore, by putting this theory into the analysis, the writer expects to gain some relevant findings related to subject position and implied reader
as the ideological function of the album —discussion that deals with the main
question.
3.3. Data Collection
