Meaning of filk | Babel Free

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About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.)

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Examples

“The blame⟳/credit (choose⟳ one) for the first filk song is a little dubious. Like⟳ the man who tried to sit⟳ on two stools, it falls in the middle, between Poul Anderson who wrote a filk song called Barbarous Allen and Karen Anderson who egged him on and published it in Zed #774.”

“And the permanent exhibit area offers a filk performance on a small stage⟳ so that neophytes can sample more esoteric interests.”

“2006, Robert T. Balder, quoted in Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, →ISBN, page 97, I’m also involved in what is called filk music. This is music for and by fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. […] Filk is nearly as big a part of my creative life as comics, and I have⟳ similarly made many friends among the creative people in that community.”

“Music can be very important in fan texts and activities. Fans write⟳ and perform⟳ songs at gatherings about characters from television shows, not unlike the way that folk songs are sung in folk clubs. This can be seen in the name⟳ of this fan form⟳: filk song. According to Jenkins [in Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture], filk songs take⟳ their cue from commercial culture. They are about the characters from commercial television series, but ‘Filk turns commercial culture back into folk culture, existing as a mediator between two musical traditions. Its raw materials come⟳ from commercial culture; its logic is from folk culture’ (1992: 270).”

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