After giving my presentation and watching everyone else give theirs, I feel like I have a much clearer idea of where my research paper is going to end up. It was super helpful to see how everyone else approached their research \u2013 before Julia mentioned it to me, I had not even considered using psychology studies to compare the personality traits of musicians to those of tattooed people. I think this will be a really interesting angle to investigate in my paper, and will help me support my claims related to mental health and the therapeutic roles of both tattooing and music-making. Giving the presentation also made me realize that my history section is neither sufficient nor convincing. I need to find new sources about the intersecting histories of tattooing, youth culture, and music \u2013 my history section may end up beginning in the sixties rather than the 19th century. Finally, I will need to find more examples to add to my corpus, this time focusing on either more variety in genre or the complete opposite. I tend to listen to a lot of sad music, and so when I was finding artists to fill out my corpus beyond the GQ video series, I of course chose my favorites. It makes sense that artists who make sad music may also represent their negative emotions through their tattoos. So, I will have to either specify in my paper that I am focusing on a certain genre, which may skew my results, or I will need to find way more examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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