Candace Bailey

is the Neville Distinguished Professor of the Visual and Performing Arts at North Carolina Central University, an HBCU in Durham, North Carolina. Her recent interests center on musical culture of the 19th-century US South, particularly women’s music, bound volumes of music as signifiers of culture (in the US, South America, and Europe), and women’s music in Restoration and Regency England. Dr. Bailey’s work on Edmond Dédé stems from her research on music in New Orleans between 1830 and 1880, and the impact of social networks among people of color in the Crescent City. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including those from the ACLS, NEH, and National Humanities Center. Her award-winning book, Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South (University of Illinois Press, 2021), challenges assumptions about music, gender, and race over a turbulent period of US-American history.