Michael Dustin Hicks[1] (born 1956)[2] 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 groundbreaking in that field.
He has been on the music faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU) since 1984.
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.
[3] Upon being given a lifetime achievement award by the Association for Mormon Letters, he described himself as "a somewhat failed believer but an adequate saint," and expressed a hope that the award suggested, as had been said of William Maxwell, a martyrdom to quality.