Björk - Nicola Dibben
Emotion
Björk - Nicola Dibben
Nicola Dibben [+]
University of Sheffield
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Nicola Dibben is Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield. She has published widely on textual analysis of popular music, gender and identity, critical and cultural theory, emotional responses to music, and music perception.
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This chapter does not attempt to explain the emotional reactions of individual audience members to Bjork's music; it explores the means by which the idea of emotional truthfulness is communicated and the relationship between her music’s perceived expressive character, thematic content and her biography.