Toward Defining “Vocal Constriction”: Practitioner Perspectives

The experiential salience of music in identity for singing teachers

“…The literature has focused on the construction of specific roles and identities in music rather than professional musicians' sense of music in identity. For example, studies have considered the identities of school music teachers (e.g., Ballantyne & Grootenboer, 2012;Pellegrino, 2009Pellegrino, , 2015Pellegrino, , 2019Welch, Purves, et al, 2010), instrumental music teachers (e.g., Huovinen & Frostenson Lööv, 2021;Natale-Abramo, 2014;Triantafyllaki, 2010), performer/teachers (Fernández González, 2018), and singers (e.g., Hughes, 2013;Lemon-McMahon, 2019;Oakland et al, 2012Oakland et al, , 2013Oakland et al, , 2014Schei, 2005;Welch, 2017).…”