Michael Hicks (musicologist)
Michael Dustin Hicks is an American professor of music, poet and artist, who has studied a broad array of topics, although his work on music and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been ground-breaking in that field.
Hicks was born and raised in California. Hicks has a DMA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been on the music faculty at Brigham Young University since 1984. Hicks has a bachelor's degree from BYU. He has been a full professor at BYU since 1996.
Hicks first book was Mormonism and Music: A History. This work received awards from both the Mormon History Association and the Association of Mormon Letters. In 1990 his work Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic and Other Satisfactions was published. This book received significant coverage in Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines edited by Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C Pelkey. His book Henry Cowell: Bohemian was published in 2002. In 2012 his work Christian Wolff was published. In 2015 his work The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography was published. All these works have been published by Illinois University Press.
Hicks has created a variety of chamber and solo works.
From 2007 to 2010 Hicks was editor of the journal American Music published by the University of Illinois.
