Lindsey Eckenroth

As Product Coordinator of the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines, Lindsey Eckenroth oversees RAPMM content curation, licensing, and digitization; image and metadata quality control; and website development. As Metadata Coordinator, she facilitates database import and export processes for RILM Abstracts, RILM Abstracts with Full Text, and the Index to Printed Music. With the rest of the technology team, she helps to develop and manage RILM’s databases and internal user interfaces.

Eckenroth holds a PhD in musicology, with a certificate in film studies, from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has also earned a BMus in flute performance from New York University and a MA in musicology from Brooklyn College. Her research and writing are primarily focused on the intersections of popular music with film, urban life, (social reproductive) labor, and neoliberalism. Her dissertation, “Listen Like This: Audiovisual Argument in Rockumentary,” focused on representations of work, place, and stardom in rockumentaries. Her writing has been published in Music & Politics, 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). Outside of RILM, she teaches in the Contemporary Music program at The New School, plays flute, and co-publishes the zine iRRATIONAL eXIT.