Abstract
Indie music, one type of rock music, started to flourish since the mid-80’s mainly in western countries. Not so many studies have been conducted to linguistically examine the discourse of indie music. In this paper, I am investigating Jordanian indie music from a sociolinguistic perspective shedding light on the speech acts, mainly imperatives, utilized in this genre. The study goes beyond textual analysis to view indie music as a social practice, hence drawing on Fairclough (1989,1992). Lyrical analysis of 7 songs composed by the Jordanian indie musician, Yazan Al-Sarayrah, revealed that the repetitive use of the imperative form in these lyrics goes in line with the broad concept of indie music in which musicians and listeners alike seek to be deemed different. Use of imperatives in the data analyzed is said to carry the function of advising listeners, mostly of young Jordanians, to rebel against traditions and liberate themselves from the prevailing culture. In light of this, Jordanian indie music could be seen as a social practice affected by society.
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