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Franz Andres Morrissey (song etc. writer)

The Psynchopaths

Youtube Channel with music

Constultancy and language work

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FAM-ished Foodblog (occasionally dormant)

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  Franz Andres Morrissey


CV

English

Farewell Lecture "And Warldly Cares and Wardly Men Can A' Gang Tapsalterio"

Video of the lecture

  • Introduction by Dave Britain: 0:00 - 5:40
  • Lecture on Robert Burns : 5:40 - 1:15:15
  • Kind words from Colleagues/Friends 1:15:15 - 1:32:33

"Taking the Shilling" World War I in Songs

Video of a perfomance at Liceo Lugano 2 17 October 2014

Selected Texts and Publications

On Linguistics (a selection)

Parameters of Language Vigour (Excerpt from unpublished dissertation 1997)

Liverpool to Louisiana in one lyrical line: Style choice in British rock, pop and folk singing
in Miriam A Locher and Jürg Strässler (eds.) Standards and Norms in the English Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008

Transatlantic Style Choice in Rock and Pop Music
Powerpoint Show at SAUTE 2011 Conference

Language, the Singer and the Song
CUP Flyer for the book publication (no PDF, I'm afraid)

Multiple Authenticities of Folk Songs  (co-authored with Lea Hagmann)
in T. Claviez, K. Imesch and B. Sweers (Eds.) Critique of Authenticity.Wilmington, Vernon Press, 2019

Plucky Tommies, Angelic Nurses and the Others: identity constructions in hegemonic and antihegemonic discourse of First World War songs
in Julia Andres, Brian Rozema, Anne Schröder (Dis-)Harmony: Amplifying Voices in Polyphone Cultural Productions, Bielefelder Schriften zu Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft 30/ Bielefeld English and American Studies (BEAST) 8. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2020

Gaelic Words in English

On Creative Writing (a selection)

Creative Ways (Teaching Pack for creative writing and reading in literature classes, produced by the British Council and the  BBC World Service)

In Their Own Write: From creative writing to creative reading (Paper written for the University of Barcelona's European Conference on Poetry in Education 2004)

Write on! Creative Writing as Language Practice (British Council and BBC Teaching English)

On EFL (a selection)

Challenges, Chances and Limitations of Teaching Additional Languages (Thoughts on Methodology and Didactics in Foreign or Second Language Training; Quicktime movie of a Presentation)

Writings

Viulapoesia (University of Barcelona poetry database)
Alladin and the Magic Lamp (the Panto)
Sleeping Beauty (the Panto)

Pets (on Youtube)
Visitors from Porlock

Award-winning radio play
Minutes of an Extended Departure (with Simon Hicks as Dad and FAM as Ray produced by the Caretakers)

Miscellaneous

Essen fürs Herz (Recipe for a meal based on ingredients for a healthy heart  in the Swiss health magazine Gesundheitstipp)
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