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Did MTV Help Replace Rock? Billy Corgan and the Story of Its Displacement
Billy Corgan’s provocation opens a larger argument about genre power, mainstream displacement, and the institutions that shape what a culture hears.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Mar 195 min read


The Doors: The Establishment of Psychedelic Rock
The Doors are read as a decisive rupture in rock history, where theatre, danger, erotic darkness, and ritual made a new sound-world possible.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Nov 18, 202511 min read


Jim Morrison: The Modern Shaman – Echoes of the Sacred in Rock 'n' Roll
Morrison appears here as a frontman shaped by ritual hunger, poetic excess, and the surviving traces of the sacred inside performance.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Oct 13, 202510 min read


William Blake’s Doors of Perception and Visionary Poetry
Blake’s visionary imagination becomes an assault on narrowed perception and a demand for spiritual sight beyond habit.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Aug 16, 20256 min read


Tomaso Albinoni: From Baroque Obscurity to Rock Immortality
Albinoni’s afterlife shows how a composer can move from archival obscurity into modern emotional myth through reinvention and reception.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Aug 1, 202511 min read


Jim Morrison at Père Lachaise: The Poet-Shaman’s Afterlife
Morrison’s grave becomes a site where poetry, legend, performance, and ruin continue to feed the mythology of excess.

David Lapadat | Music PhD
Apr 27, 20245 min read
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