North Carolina Central University Music Professor Candace Bailey, Ph.D., has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center.
Bailey was among 37 out of 647 applicants worldwide to be chosen for the 2019-2020 Walter Hines Page Fellowship, named for the late Cary, NC, native who was an accomplished journalist, publisher and diplomat.
Bailey, a musicologist, will use the fellowship to spend a year at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park working on her book manuscript, “Women, Music, and the Performance of Gentility in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South.”
Her research focuses on women and music in the southern United States during the nineteenth century and keyboard music in England during the seventeenth century.
Originally published Apr. 26, 2019.