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This article considers how the ‘new vocality’, showcased by Demetrio Stratos in his albums and , was, in itself, a revolutionary practice. To do so, it begins by describing these two works as well as the posthumously published text ‘Diplofonie e altro’, in the context of 1970’s Italy. Stratos believed the voice in the capitalist system suffered from a vocal hypertrophy which restricted its communicative capacity and turned it into a vehicle for stereotyped expressions. This situation brought to the fore a ‘voice-’ which concealed what he called the ‘voice’ and which led him to a theoretical–practical search for other forms of knowledge about the voice that encompass the role of language, psychoanalysis and phonology. This led to a voice, a , which aims to elude the way the voice is used in the prevailing system of economics and thought, and opens up the possibility of (what is called here) a concrete utopia.

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Keywords: voice and capitalism ; voice and gender ; diplophony ; voice-catharsis ; voice-event ; voice-language ; vocal hypertrophy

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