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feeling included

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That's who you feel you are, where you belong, who you feel comfortable with.

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everything that a person connects with.

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who i  am as defined by my birth family and my chosen family and that which I value.

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who i  am as defined by my birth family and my chosen family and that which I value.

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all the things that make me me!

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what makes me ME.

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A musician is someone who creates music - and that is everybody everywhere (even infants)

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I think of my humanity

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What I know how to do best and being remembered for that

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What I know how to do best and being remembered for that

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Culture, upbringing, and environment.

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A musical is someone who makes music. Etymology.

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I think of intersectionality: How different aspects of identity may inform, conflict, and work together towards someone's lived experience.

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Someone who creates music. In any "way".

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My personal history, my ambitions, my tastes, emotional state

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My definition as defined by me.

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Who I am, where I am from, my culture, my religion

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I feel and discover my identity most in music making when I compose.

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Who I am on the deepest level, how I define myself, my special-ness

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Who I am on the deepest level, how I define myself, my special-ness

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The internal sense of a "home" feeling. The most true and real center of yourself, and all the things that contribute to creating that feeling. 

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The internal sense of a "home" feeling. The most true and real center of yourself, and all the things that contribute to creating that feeling. 

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My identity as a young student and how that carries forward into my identity as a teacher

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My identity as a young student and how that carries forward into my identity as a teacher

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Heritage, language, culture, music one grew up with and loves now, teachers one admires and is aspires to be like

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Bi-racial, singer, songwriter. I still feel inexperienced at times. I am also a mother, wife, daughter, sister and friend.

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I see them in the curricula I create--I did not see myself reflected in the curriculum growing up so I want the opposite to be the case for my students.

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Someone who plays music

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Hard working, patient, always learning and open to new ideas.

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Hard working, patient, always learning and open to new ideas.

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As a person: mother, friend, collaborator
As a musician: an oboist, a performer of new music
As a teacher: creative, silly, experienced

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Someone who tells stories via "musicking"

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I identify myself by my relationship with others. It's through relationship.

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All: composing, performing (particularly improvised music), listening, dancing . ..there's no end.

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A communicator of art and a collaborator of sound.

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Timbre

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Musicians are artists that collect,  listen, produce, create, or simply love music. 

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Musicians are artists that collect,  listen, produce, create, or simply love music. 

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Through my selection of music that I choose to teach my students to ensure that it is representative of them.

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My Culture, Family Upbringing, Education, & Values

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My Culture, Family Upbringing, Education, & Values

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Creator of music, plays music, performs music

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I identify as Puerto Rican man, drummer, composer and music educator.

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I identify as Puerto Rican man, drummer, composer and music educator.

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I see my story on the songs I choose or write, on the rhythms and the sounds I favor and on the way certain music makes me feel 

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I see my story on the songs I choose or write, on the rhythms and the sounds I favor and on the way certain music makes me feel 

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daughter, sister, friend, neice, girlfriend, teacher, funny, salsa dancer, world traveler, karaoke lover, foodie

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daughter, sister, friend, neice, girlfriend, teacher, funny, salsa dancer, world traveler, karaoke lover, foodie

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Enjoying music in any manifestation - singing, dancing, playing, listening, composing.

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Anyone who brings joy to others by creating or playing music to, for, or with them.

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Anyone who brings joy to others by creating or playing music to, for, or with them.

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my religion, culture, town, family, friends, education, life philosophy 

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my religion, culture, town, family, friends, education, life philosophy 

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I don't see my story or identity as being central to what I do musically

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...All of the things that keep me comfortable in my own skin. Clothing, expression, views (NOT political views, ways of life) hobbies...

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Someone who plays music or uses music on a regular basis to teach or get ideas across.

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Someone who plays music or uses music on a regular basis to teach or get ideas across.

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Let the music that compels me speak to parts of who I am.

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musician is a person who plays an instrument (which includes the voice)

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musician is a person who plays an instrument (which includes the voice)

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Mostly self-taught as a musician because I grew up poor. My students are poor, too, and I try to give them the tools I longed for when I was growing up. I have high standards for myself, and believe in my students.

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My identity limits me. My musical imagination liberates me

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The story lives in the lyrics. My feelings live in the chords

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The story lives in the lyrics. My feelings live in the chords

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I see my story as my legacy. Impressions I have made. Creations. A legacy left behind. A mark.

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A musician is someone who gives and shares, not someone who takes and extracts

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Anyone who makes music. Everyone's entitled to be a musician

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I believe in a technical definition of musician which leaves me often feeling under qualified, although I am creative and can do many things by ear, I am unable to read and play piano as well as I would like especially in bass clef.

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Every large event that happened in my life, of which created me.

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Every large event that happened in my life, of which created me.

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Musician, to me, is someone who makes music. 

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Musician, to me, is someone who makes music. 

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Being a musician means that one's identity is incomplete without the inclusion of music making.

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the music I like to listen to, perform, discuss, create

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the music I like to listen to, perform, discuss, create

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The many facets that converge to reflect who a person is.

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The many facets that converge to reflect who a person is.

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I think of an iceberg...people only see the tip, but there is so much more underneath that you can't see.

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By listening to the stories and many facets of identities of others first.

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well with my students I always talk about the song and how it relates to ME. This makes it more interesting to them. THey WANT to know about you as their teacher, as a person, not just a teacher. And when they have that connection with you, and you have that connection with the music, it transfers

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well with my students I always talk about the song and how it relates to ME. This makes it more interesting to them. THey WANT to know about you as their teacher, as a person, not just a teacher. And when they have that connection with you, and you have that connection with the music, it transfers

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I try to circumvent and challenge the way I was trained as a musician. I think about how students can achieve craft joyfully, perseveringly, and in a way that rejects shame and competition.

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Mostly, Im a synth player for hire. I get to add myself to other peoples music right now and I love that

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Mostly, Im a synth player for hire. I get to add myself to other peoples music right now and I love that

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performing, listening, sharing with friends and students 

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performing, listening, sharing with friends and students 

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The different parts of a person that influence a person's lived experience and how they world may interact with them.

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I see my travels around the world influencing my music teaching.  In Hungry where I visited  no one spoke English in many of the towns and that helps me relate to my students learning English.
Also the different musical styles I have been introduced to has influenced my ways of teaching world music.

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By composing music and sharing with others.

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By composing music and sharing with others.

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The music that I make is deeply rooted in my culture.

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The music that I make is deeply rooted in my culture.

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Someone that can express and communicate their feelings and emotions through sound. Either with voice, musical instruments, or objects.

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To make, play, create music (organized sound).

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To make, play, create music (organized sound).

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One of the most important facets of my identity is remaining open to the ability to evolve in all aspects of life.

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I am a musician because I make music, I apply musical ideas to the sounds around me, I recall musical phrases and lyrics to accompany life's situations, I commune with music, I am my most self when involved with music. 

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I am a musician because I make music, I apply musical ideas to the sounds around me, I recall musical phrases and lyrics to accompany life's situations, I commune with music, I am my most self when involved with music. 

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I have a private identity and a public identity. I share that private identity with a privileged few, but I am trying more and more to marry the two so that those precious parts of myself can be shared with more people

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Damn...  I don't think I do O_O, but I suppose I make an effort to incorporate the stories and identities of others into my work, because that's what I needed as a kid.

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Dormant solo artist consumed and depleted from making and connecting with 700.

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I see myself in the sharing music experiences. It could be performing or listening or teaching

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My songs always express my experiences and my beliefs. My longing to belong and be loved. My faith and my feelings about many things in this crazy life.

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through songs with lyrics that directly fit those specifics; with music of any kind that speaks to me what can't be spoken

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through songs with lyrics that directly fit those specifics; with music of any kind that speaks to me what can't be spoken

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I share my story as a form of connecting to my students. I model for them in hopes that they are comfortable enough to share their identity with me.

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When I play music, it is not just what I see and hear, but how I feel.  When I teach music and other students internalize what they hear in their bodily and verbal expressions, then my job as a musician is complete.

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When I play music, it is not just what I see and hear, but how I feel.  When I teach music and other students internalize what they hear in their bodily and verbal expressions, then my job as a musician is complete.

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Black, cis gendered male, queer, Black American culture, vocalist, choir director, dancer, actor, performer...as a music teacher I bring the fullness of all of my identities and share it with my students

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When you asked what song most expresses our identity - that was the strongest ask I have yet to experience. That is the strongest identifying factor for me. Not just because the song is important to me, but that it comes from my family The experiences I had listening to it with my father, and his take, my brother was named after Ry Cooder because the music meant so much to my father. So when I listen to it, I feel close to my family and the values of my family(in addition to the values of me as an individual)

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My songwriting and poetry.

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I grew up in a singing family, so I sing to my students all the time. Singing is love to me.

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I teach my students that music is an exercise in empathy (or as close to empathy as we can get.) We use our experience/story to reflect the music, and to tell our stories and the stories of others as respectfully and thoroughly as possible. We use music to look for and toward one another.

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I teach it, play it, listen to it, share it, live it.

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racial/cultural heritage, how life experiences impact your way of life

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I think it is anyone who responds to music, any and all music, even if they don't play an instrument. The human voice is the original.

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I think it is anyone who responds to music, any and all music, even if they don't play an instrument. The human voice is the original.

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In my personal practice, choosing music that speaks to my life lyrically, or when performing as a solo musician, highlighting music by a composer that experienced similar marginalization based on a shared identity.

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I am a daughter, sister, friend, citizen. I am a woman, a singer, a writer. As a teacher, I value connection, relationships, and trying to help each student find a spark in themselves and the humanity in each other. 

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I am a daughter, sister, friend, citizen. I am a woman, a singer, a writer. As a teacher, I value connection, relationships, and trying to help each student find a spark in themselves and the humanity in each other. 