"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?
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Rasmussen Pennington, Diane ![]() | Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item(Other) |
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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: | 26 Dec 2020 02:51 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/65054 |
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