Elizabeth Frickey

Biography

Elizabeth Frickey is a Ph.D. candidate and MacCracken Fellow studying musicology at New York University. Prior to her studies at NYU, she earned her master’s degree in musicology at Indiana University and her bachelor’s degree in music education from Florida State University. Her dissertation project examines the cultural, ecological, and political impact of community gardens and other NYC  greenspaces through the lens of music and sound. Elizabeth has presented her research in numerous national and international settings, including annual meetings of the Society for American Music; the American Musicological Society; the Society for Ethnomusicology; the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts; the Music Studies and the Anthropocene Research Network; and the 2023 Music, Research, and Activism Conference held in Helsinki. Her writing has also been published in numerous forums including Jazz & Culture, the Journal of Jazz Studies, Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, and Journal SEAMUS.