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Lindsey Eckenroth is a musicologist, media scholar, and flutist. In addition to teaching in the Contemporary Music Program at The New School's Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, she works on the technology team at RILM and is the Product Coordinator of the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM). Lindsey holds a PhD  in musicology, with a certificate in film studies, from The CUNY Graduate Center. Her research and writing are primarily focused on the intersections of popular music with film, urban life, (social reproductive) labor, and neoliberalism. Her writing has been published in Music & Politics, Rock Music Studies, American Music Review, and Don’t Take Pictures, as well as in the collection Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). You can hear her flute playing on Solitude and Secrecy, released on Pinch Records.

Degrees Held

Ph.D., Musicology with a Certificate in Film Studies; The Graduate Center, CUNY

M.A., Musicology; Brooklyn College, CUNY

B.Mus., Flute Performance, New York University

Recent Publications

“Self-Scoring as Neoliberal Self-Care in the Early Films of Jim Jarmusch,” co-authored with Robert Wood. Music and Politics 20, no. 1 (2026). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/mp.10633

“Cars and Guitars, or Detroit and the MC5: On Representations of Music and Place in MC5: A True Testimonial.” In Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury, edited by Gunnar Iversen and Scott MacKenzie. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Studio Soundtrack Playlists: “Evicting Time,” “Gritty,” “Home,” “Gender Roll,” Psychogeography,” and “The Drive.” Don’t Take Pictures, October 2020–March 2021.

“Accidental Ideas: An Interview with Sara Landeau.” American Music Review 49, no. 2 (Fall 2020): 1–8.

“Representing Joy Division: Assembling Audiovisual Argument and Psychogeography in Rockumentary.” Rock Music Studies 1, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 1–20.

“Once Again, on the Music of Laurie Anderson’s ‘O Superman (for Massenet).’” American Music Review 43, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 21–4.