Aurélie Solenne Gandour
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Key information
Key information
- Qualifications
- BSc (Poitiers, France), MSc (Poitiers, France)
- Email address
- 676498@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Mixed-gender barbershop singing: Shifting tradition through the performative negotiations of gender (working title)
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Angela Impey
Biography
Aurélie Gandour is a doctoral researcher in SOAS' music department. Her research is concerned with mixed-gender barbershop singing, a new occurrence in an a cappella genre which is usually practiced in gender-segregated ensembles. Aurélie sings in the barbershop style with award-winning chorus London City Singers, as well as with Endeavour Chorus and Interference quartet. She is a former academic librarian and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research interests
- Barbershop singing
- Popular music
- Voice
- Gender performance
- Performance studies