Dr. Paul Fischer
Associate Professor
History of The Recording Industry
Survey of the Recording Industry
Music As Popular Culture
Concert Promotion and Production
Linking British/American Popular Music
Popular Music and Cultural Studies
Office: BAS N455
Phone: 615.898.5470
Email: pfischer@mtsu.edu
Paul Fischer , associate professor of recording
industry, earned his B.S. in Speech (Radio/TV/Film) from Northwestern
University. His Master's degree in Popular Culture from Bowling
Green State University centered on the thesis (1981), "The
Case For Scholarly Study of Rock 'n' Roll: A Philosophy of Education."
His PhD. is in American Culture Studies, also from Bowling Green
State University.
Over the years he has worked in record retail,
operated his own mobile deejay business, produced on-campus events,
worked in concert promotion and production, run the box office
of a ten thousand seat arena, and served as a celebrity broker.
Most recently he has done on site and marketing work for the AmSouth
Amphitheater in Nashville.
Dr. Fischer's research interests include monitoring
challenges to popular music as expression, application of literacy
and cultural theory to popular culture, and examination of the
roots and evolution of American popular musics. A new area he
is exploring is the origin and development of recording technologies
and the careers of the inventors. He is an active member of the
American Studies Association, and the International Association
for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He is presently serving
as Past President of IASPM's United States branch. He was president
from 2000 to 2002.
