ABSTRACT
The examination of 'subcultures' and their concomitant musical practices has produced a large and varied body of work, a recent portion of which has been concerned with what might be referred to generally as 'dance music' scenes. Concurrent with this focus has been a burgeoning interest in gender/sexuality and music. The relationships of cultural products to subcultural groups has been an area of special interest within the British Cultural Studies school. In their seminal work, Hall and Jefferson propose that a homologous relationship obtains between cultural products such as music and the overriding group ethos. The initially unambiguous voice is thus re-contextualised in a narrative of indeterminate sexuality. Is the second voice male or female? The argot, as well as the inflections and sibilant's' sounds are undeniably gay; the voice, however, is mechanised and indeterminate regarding gender.
