The research focuses on voice, lyrics and vocals of Queer nightlife. Study cases will be the late 1980s and early 1990s vocalists of House Music. I will start by practicing reading lyrics to ultimately investigate the object voice and the role it plays in the production of desire. Spoken words, vocals and vocalists are specially fundamental to music’s affect, by revisiting those common places with situated expressivities – how individuality is enacted through commons – we make them travel into new belongings. House and Pop Music's sense of "beyondness" and "spirituality" is connected to sexuality and is often rooted in the voice. If music opens a space of transcendence, it might be the voice which brings it back to earth. Some interesting theoretical arguments that look into the voice as an object are Kaja Silverman's The acoustic mirror, which studies the roll of the female voice in cinema and Mladen Dolar's A voice and nothing more, which studies the object voice as "one of the paramount 'embodiments' of what Lacan called 'objet petit a'," which means: the object voice as that which stands for the unattainable object of desire.

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