Paula J. BIshop, PhD – Scholarship, Teaching, and More

Conference Presentations

“History, Hopes, and Dreams: National Country Music Month and the Nostalgia Feedback Loop,” Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, Minneapolis, March 2023; International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN, May 2024.

“’Actions Speak Louder than Words’: Reconsidering Feminism in Country Music in the 1990s,” Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, online, June 2021.

“’Home Sweet Home to Me’: ‘Rocky Top’ and Country Music Nostalgia,” International Country Music Conference, online, May 2021.

 “When Britney Ruled the World: How Female Country Artists Are Constructing Their Heritage.” International Country Music Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 2019.

“The Evolution of the Bridge in Country Music Narrative Structures,” Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2019

“Rock ‘n Roll Songs as an Oral History of 1950s Teenagers,” Annual Conference of the Oral History Association, Montreal, October 2018

“The Songwriting Style of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant,” International Country Music Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 2018

“’How Will You Sing without a Voice?’: Lip-Synced Performances as Audio Cure for a Perceived Disability in Television,” Music and the Moving Imagine Conference, New York City, May 2018

“’A Belly Full of Spaghetti and Ears Full of Song’: Felice Bryant and Country Music Songwriting in the 1950s,” Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, March 2018, Kansas City, Missouri; International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Nashville, Tennessee, March 2018; and A Powerful Voice: Women in Music, Ball State University, March 2020 [canceled due to COVID]

“Performing the Performance: From Country Radio to Rock ‘n’ Roll Television in the Early Career of the Everly Brothers,” Annual Conference of the American Musicological Society, Rochester, New York, November 2017

“Reversal of Fortune: Musical Stereotypes in South Park’s ‘Red Man’s Greed’,” Music and the Moving Image Conference, New York City, May 2017

“Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and the Transformation of Professional Songwriting in Nashville in the 1950s”, International Country Music Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 2016

“’Sincerely Faking It:’ Re-embodying the Voice in Lip Synch Battles,” Music and the Moving Image Conference, New York City, May 2016

“Performing the Performance: From Country Radio to Rock ‘n’ Roll Television in the Early Career of the Everly Brothers,” Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, March 2015, Sacramento, California; Music and the Moving Image Conference, May 2015, New York City; and American Musicological Society, Rochester, New York, November 2017.