In preparation for this class session, I spent a lot of time with my research topic (tattooing and the music industry). I wasn\u2019t sure where my research was going to take me, as I didn\u2019t have a concrete or more specific topic within my broader topic. I probably looked at around 30 sources before I found 10 that I could see working with my topic; I didn\u2019t find any sources directly linking tattooing with the music industry, which is a good thing. By allowing the sources to take me down a variety of paths, I landed on a topic that I don\u2019t think I would have been able to think of on my own: the paradoxical pain-creating and healing capabilities of both tattooing and music-making. The common themes that came up over and over again when I put in my key terms (music, tattoo) were mental health, emotion, subculture, and expression. I\u2019m really excited to look deeper into the connections between the structure of the music industry and the tattooing industry at the level of embodied art, as well as to make more comparisons between the ways youth, mental health, creativity, and the formation of subculture function in both areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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