When political equality is measured, a person’s social location in structures differentiated by class, gender, age, ability, race and caste is today often taken into account. There is, however, one structure relevant for political equality that has so far not been thoroughly thought through, and that is the hierarchical relation between different forms of expression. Hence, in the paper I will develop Adriana Cavarero’s philosophy of vocal expression towards expression used in music and dance art. I will claim, that to take into account other forms of expression than the verbal in the context of political theory requires new ways of conceptualizing the political itself. This is related to the fact that speech and politics have been conceptualized as tightly related by influential thinkers in the field of democratic thought including Hannah Arendt, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, and before them already Aristotle.
