Felt vs. Displayed Emotions
1.
Emotional labor creates dilemmas for employees when their job requires them to
exhibit emotions incongruous with their actual feelings. It is a frequent
occurrence. For example, when there are people that you have to work with whom
you find it very difficult to be friendly toward. You are forced to feign
friendliness.
2.
Felt emotions are an individual’s actual emotions.
3.
Displayed emotions are those that are organizationally required and considered
appropriate in a given job. They are learned.
4.
Key—felt and displayed emotions are often different. This is particularly true
in organizations, where role demands and situations often require people to
exhibit emotional behaviors that mask their true feelings.
JOE'S GARAGE: THE EMOTIONAL DIMENSION
The unlimited popularity of the tonal system in western music has a lot to do with it's capacity, combined with instrumentation and the way music is performed, to translate emotions into music in a for everybody recognizable form. It's also the way most people like to talk about music, often giving highly subjective interpretations of what the music means in their opinion along with it. Sections of music can express feelings of joy, sadness, anger and relaxation. Why this effect exists is usually not very clear. Dissonant and shouting can be associated with anger or tension, but why some melodic lines have the effect of joy and others don't is hardly explainable. It's better to take it for granted that the three downwards played notes of a minor third have the effect of sadness, and composers looking to maximize recognizable emotional impact probably have a good catalogue in their mind of melody types and their effect (compare "Debra Kadabra" from "Bongo Fury" from 2:44 onwards for a minor third effect).
Music can also be on a more emotionally abstract level, but certainly not less emotional, where it becomes difficult to translate the emotions into words other than "expressive" or "intense" and where the emotions seem to rely more on the pleasure of the listening to the music itself. Zappa prefers the more abstract level, confirmed by his unwillingness to take his personal life as the subject of his lyrics. He may talk about his lovely wife and children in "The Real Frank Zappa book", but never on his albums. Zappa's music can be very expressive, but speaking for myself I have no idea how I could describe for instance the guitar solos on "Shut up 'n play your guitar" in emotional terms as happiness or tension.
The unlimited popularity of the tonal system in western music has a lot to do with it's capacity, combined with instrumentation and the way music is performed, to translate emotions into music in a for everybody recognizable form. It's also the way most people like to talk about music, often giving highly subjective interpretations of what the music means in their opinion along with it. Sections of music can express feelings of joy, sadness, anger and relaxation. Why this effect exists is usually not very clear. Dissonant and shouting can be associated with anger or tension, but why some melodic lines have the effect of joy and others don't is hardly explainable. It's better to take it for granted that the three downwards played notes of a minor third have the effect of sadness, and composers looking to maximize recognizable emotional impact probably have a good catalogue in their mind of melody types and their effect (compare "Debra Kadabra" from "Bongo Fury" from 2:44 onwards for a minor third effect).
Music can also be on a more emotionally abstract level, but certainly not less emotional, where it becomes difficult to translate the emotions into words other than "expressive" or "intense" and where the emotions seem to rely more on the pleasure of the listening to the music itself. Zappa prefers the more abstract level, confirmed by his unwillingness to take his personal life as the subject of his lyrics. He may talk about his lovely wife and children in "The Real Frank Zappa book", but never on his albums. Zappa's music can be very expressive, but speaking for myself I have no idea how I could describe for instance the guitar solos on "Shut up 'n play your guitar" in emotional terms as happiness or tension.
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