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Dr. Paula J. Bishop - musicology

Paula Bishop sitting on a rock smiling with short dark brown hair, holding a ukulele and wearing black leggings and tall fashion boots and a black open sweater over a long maroon button up blouse
Part-Time Faculty
Hunt Hall, Room 120
Pronouns
she/her/hers

BS, North Carolina State University
MA, Boston University
PhD, Boston University

Paula Bishop is on the faculty of the music department and currently serves as the co-director of the Part-Time Faculty Development Group. She has presented and published on the Everly Brothers, the Nashville songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, and feminism and country music. She is the co-editor with Jada Watson of Whose Country Music?: Genre, Identity and Belonging from Cambridge University Press, and with Kendra Preston Leonard of Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment from University Press of Mississippi. Her current research focuses on the role of nostalgia in country music.

Area of Expertise

American music, popular music, country music