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?
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 13 Jun 2018 |
| Event | The U2 Conference - Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018 |
Conference
| Conference | The U2 Conference |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Belfast |
| Period | 13/06/18 → 15/06/18 |
Keywords
- semantic ambiguity
- information retrieval
- emotions
- U2
- PopVision
- Zooropa
- Pop
- Achtung Baby
- popular music