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@article{Eckstein2009TorpedoingTA,
  title={Torpedoing the authorship of popular music: a reading of Gorillaz' ‘Feel Good Inc.’},
  author={Lars Eckstein},
  journal={Popular Music},
  year={2009},
  volume={28},
  pages={239 - 255},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:58901015}
}

Abstract This article addresses problems of authorship and creative authority in popular music, in particular in view of a pervasive split between modes of aesthetic production (involving modernist assemblage, multiple authorship, and the late capitalist logic of major label policies) and modes of aesthetic reception (which tend to take popular music as the organic output of individual performers). While rock musicians have attempted to come to terms with this phenomenon by either performing a… 

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