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Green Day: Rock Music and Class
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Roig, Olivia
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460052619
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Year and Degree
2016, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
Abstract
The pop punk band Green Day is a surprisingly interesting source for a discussion of class. Despite their working class background, and their massive successes with Dookie in 1994, and American Idiot in 2004, Green Day performs many middle class values in their song lyrics, stage shows, and interviews. Using Chris McDonald’s book Rush: Rock Music and the Middle Class as a template, this paper analyzes Green Day’s performance of class through theories about social class in North America. Throughout Green Day’s career, there is a noticeable tension between wanting to stick to their working class roots and acknowledging their sudden and unexpected thrust into an upper class economic standing. Yet, despite skipping a middle class standing economically, their song lyrics, stage shows, and interviews articulate many middle class values such as individualism, professionalism, and the middle class family.
Committee
Jeremy Wallach, Dr (Advisor)
Jeremy Wallach, Dr (Committee Chair)
Esther Clinton, Dr (Committee Member)
Jones Dalton, Dr (Committee Member)
Pages
78 p.
Subject Headings
American Studies
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Music
Keywords
class
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Green Day
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Chris McDonald
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Rush
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middle class values
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punk music
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Roig, O. (2016).
Green Day: Rock Music and Class
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460052619
APA Style (7th edition)
Roig, Olivia.
Green Day: Rock Music and Class.
2016. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460052619.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Roig, Olivia. "Green Day: Rock Music and Class." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460052619
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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