Dr. Anthony J. Bushard is assistant professor of music history at the University of Nebraska School of Music. Dr. Bushard received a B.A. in music (piano) from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, as well as a masters and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the American Musicological Society, College Music Society, Society for American Music, Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, and a two-time recipient of the Milton Steinhardt Scholarship in musicology at the University of Kansas. Also while at KU, he was a harpsichordist for the KU Collegium Musicum and the Spencer Consort.

Dr. Bushard's research interests are in Contemporary American music with a special focus on jazz, blues, and film music. His masters research deals with the jazz and blues club scene in Kansas City during the 1930s. Furthermore, he has published sections of that research in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second Edition. His dissertation, entitled Fear and Loathing in Hollywood: Representations of Fear, Paranoia, and Individuality vs. Conformity in Selected Film Music of the 1950s, considers the musicodramatic implications of the scores for High Noon (1952), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), and On the Waterfront (1954) alongside sociopolitical undercurrents of the 1950s. A sampling of this work is featured in the current issue of the Journal of Film Music and is forthcoming in College Music Symposium. Dr. Bushard has presented his research at CMS and SAM national meetings, as well as regional meetings of the AMS, CMS, film and jazz symposia, and at various lectures throughout the Midwest.

A native of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Dr. Bushard has taught previously at the University of Kansas and The University of Missouri, Kansas City. At UNL he teaches courses in Jazz History, Film Music, World Music, American Music, and Introduction to Undergraduate Studies in Music.