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

Print Publications

Edited Collections

Whose Country Music? Genre, Identity, and Belonging in 21st Century Country Music Culture, co-edited with Jada Watson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment, co-edited with Kendra Preston Leonard. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023.

Essays in Collections

“’When Britney Ruled the World’: How Female Country Artists Are Constructing Their Heritage.” In Whose Country Music? Genre, Identity, and Belonging in 21st Century Country Music Culture, edited by Paula J. Bishop and Jada Watson, 148-161. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

“’A Belly Full of Spaghetti and Ears Full of Song’: Felice Bryant and Country Music Songwriting in the 1950s.” In Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment, edited by Paula J. Bishop and Kendra Preston Leonard. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023.

Journal Articles

“History, Hopes, and Dreams: National Country Music Month and the Nostalgia Feedback Loop.” Journal of the Society for American Music (forthcoming).

“Felice Bryant and Country Music Songwriting in the 1950s,” Bridgewater Review 39, no. 1 (2020): 4-7.

Reviews

Review, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistance, and Dolly Parton, by Lynn Melnick. Journal of Popular Music Studies (forthcoming).

Review, Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music, by Bill C. Malone, Journal of the Society for American Music 13, no. 3 (August 2019): 387-90.

Review, Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels, by James Revell Carr, Journal of the Society for American Music 11, no. 1 (February 2017): 107-10.

Other

Articles for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition

“The Roots and Influences of the Everly Brothers.” PhD Dissertation, Boston University, 2011.

“Patronage of Composers in the United States.” MA Thesis, Boston University, 2005