about
I am a final year Music and Hispanic Studies student at The University of Sheffield. I play the piano, the clarinet and the African djembe, and have a particular interest in music, language, culture and people.
This website functions as a portfolio for my various journalistic endeavours. It features everything I wrote for Exposed Magazine in Sheffield, plus a selection of work produced for a tourism platform called Divento during a five-month journalism internship in Barcelona. Most of these texts are written in both English and Spanish. Finally, anything else can be found under ‘Other Work.’
contact
Email: maddy.b.p@hotmail.co.uk
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about the special project
This website also forms part of the assessment criteria for the 2018-2019 Special Project module offered to final year Music students at the University of Sheffield. The module allows students to negotiate a project that does not conform to Dissertation, Performance or Composition, giving students an opportunity to work with others outside of their discipline and to communicate their work to non-specialist audiences.
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I decided to take this opportunity to explore a pathway within music that has always intrigued me: music journalism. For the best part of an academic year, I have undertaken a work placement in (mostly) music journalism with a local Sheffield-based magazine called Exposed. The work I produced during this internship can be found in my portfolio under ‘Texts for Exposed.’ As part of the Special Project module, I also wrote an independent gig review and a short critical essay on music journalism, both of which can be found under ‘Case Studies.’ My personal blog is a space for analysis and critical reflection on my progress as I go along.