Mark Spicer specializes in the reception history and analysis of popular music, especially British pop and rock since the 1960s, and his writings on this subject have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Contemporary Music Review, Music Theory Online, twentieth-century music, and other scholarly journals, as well as three essay collections. (A representative listing of his publications may be found at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Music/faculty/spicer.html). Prior to joining the Hunter faculty in 1999, he taught at the University of North Texas, Yale (where he received the Yale College prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching), and La Salle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Prof. Spicer maintains an active parallel career as a professional keyboardist and vocalist, having worked with several groups in the US and the UK since the 1980s. In the early 1990s, he was a founding member of the critically acclaimed group Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks, and can be heard on their first two CDs, On the Blank Generation (1991) and World of Fireworks (1994). He continues to take the stage most weekends with his own “electric R&B” group, The Bernadettes.