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Lindsey Eckenroth is a musicologist, media scholar, and flutist. She works as Data Coordinator at RILM in addition to teaching in the Contemporary Music Program at The New School's Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. Lindsey holds a PhD from The CUNY Graduate Center in musicology, with a certificate in film studies. She likes thinking and writing about film music and sound, popular music documentaries, psychogeography, rock stardom and the celebrity “trainwreck,” the many things “the voice” can mean, and creative work under late capitalism. Her writing has been published in Rock Music Studies, American Music Review, Don’t Take Pictures, and Women & Music, 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

“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.