"Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world" : resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision

Rasmussen Pennington, Diane (2018) "Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world" : resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision. In: The U2 Conference, 2018-06-13 - 2018-06-15.

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    Abstract

    Semantic ambiguity complicates finding desired information. Additionally, the same music elicits different emotions in different people, which makes it difficult to find music online that meets our emotional desires. I operationalise this as “musical emotional ambiguity.” U2’s musical emotional ambiguity is especially complex, as any fan can attest. In this presentation, I will disambiguate the emotion of U2’s PopVision using multimodal analysis of music, lyrics, videos, and live concerts from Achtung Baby, Zooropa, and Pop, 1990s world events, interviews, reviews, paraphernalia, and fandom discussions. Can we agree on how PopVision and its artefacts make us feel?

    Author(s):Rasmussen Pennington, Diane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1275-7054
    Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Other)
    ID code:65054
    Keywords:semantic ambiguity, information retrieval, emotions, U2, PopVision, Zooropa, Pop, Achtung Baby, popular music, Library Science. Information Science, Music, Library and Information Sciences, Music
    Subjects:Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science
    Music and Books on Music > Music
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:06 Aug 2018 15:12
    Last modified:14 Sep 2019 02:03
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/65054
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