The Personnel

Beatriz Goubert is the Product Development Coordinator for RAPPM. As Editor she works on music publications from Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2019). Her dissertation (book project) focuses on Andean popular music as a strategy for indigenous revitalization and legal recognition in Colombia. Her research interests include popular music and culture in Latin America, language revitalization, cultural politics, and urban music and migration. She recently coauthored Two anthems and a joke: Acoustemologies of the Colombian social uprising, 2019-21 on the use of popular music in social protest. She has also published on the circulation of popular music in Bogota, including Bogotá y sus tokes (Bogota and its concerts: A study of the transformation in the supply of performative musical services, 2009) and Universidad, músicas urbanas, pedagogía y cotidianidad (University, urban music, pedagogy, and cotidianity, 2004).

Beatriz also works on collaborative digital humanities projects that use minimal computing principles–a simple design that balances the users’ needs and resources. She is currently working with the Muisca indigenous community on a digital archive and collaborative soundscape album combining the sounds of the territory, the language, and of local instruments. Besides, she is the 2019–2023 General Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

Lindsey Eckenroth is a musicologist, media scholar, and flutist. She works as Data Coordinator at RILM and teaches 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.

Arthur J. Fournier is the head consultant for RAPMM. A Brooklyn-based ABAA/ILAB member specializing in underground publications, disruptive technologies, and societal conflict, he is a noted handler of archives and qualified appraiser with ten years experience in the field of rare books and manuscripts. Arthur has lectured on zines and other underground cultural artifacts at Yale’s MFA program in graphic design, Harvard’s Houghton Library, and conferences of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the American Library Association. He works regularly with top-tier research institutions—including the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—on the acquisition of rare books, serials, manuscripts, and archival materials related to 20th century popular music, fine art, performance, film, and literature. His other wide-ranging activities include the installation of an bookstore at a lauded independent/repertory movie theater in New York City (including rare film journals and first edition biographies) and the curation of a collection of seminal New York music zines including New York Rocker, East Village Eye, and the PUNK magazine at the SONOS high-fidelity audio store in Soho.

Fred Gates is the graphic designer and web developer for RAPMM, including the very website you are now viewing. He has a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art with a dual major in graphic design and painting. Since 1991 he has been the principal of Fred Gates Design, a graphic design studio in New York City.