Abstract
Within country music's songwriting practices, musical form and harmonic structure often become functional contributors to a song's story; these combinations of form and theme can be modeled as distinct narrative paradigms. This essay defines a Time-Shift narrative paradigm that relates a central trope in country music's texts to formal, structural, and poetic devices. It then presents analyses of several songs to show how the use of the narrative paradigm reinforces the core identity of country as a genre, and connects art, biography, and interpretation.
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