ABSTRACT
This chapter argues, based on moments of identification with and identification against the voice by the listener, and in that identification/anti-identification is contained a site for the emergence of queer that has little to do with being a sixteen-year-old in the process of coming out. Arguably the most common usage of "queer" in popular circulation is this adjectival form as related in its definition to sexuality, and specifically homosexuality, a form derived in the first instance from the noun "queer" as a synonym for a male homosexual. Paul Théberge has written articulately on the dependence of "virtually all music-making" on "some form of technology", and we should indeed remember that a continuum exists as regards the visibility of some technologies over others, within popular music discourses especially. Foucault's third system—technologies of power—as another set of technologies that might make an intervention in the voice, that might become audible.
