Shea, VictorMotaref, Niloufar2025-04-102025-04-102021-09-172025-04-10https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42700The thesis claims that the expansion of a grand ideology to the practices of everyday life by an interventionist regime endows popular culture an explicit emancipatory power, elevates the mundane, and transforms it to an implicit political statement uttering against the initial ideal of the grand narrative which becomes shattered, depoliticized, and fragmented on a daily basis.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Electronic Thesis or Dissertation2025-04-10Popular culturePopular songResistance through pop culture