- Filk music - Wikipedia
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor The genre has existed since the early 1950s and been played primarily since the mid-1970s
- Filk Discography Wiki | Fandom
What is filk? Filk is the musical tradition and community of science fiction and fantasy fandom It covers a wide range of styles and topics, from scurrilous parodies to beautiful original songs
- Homepage | Prometheus Music
For over 25 years, we’ve published high-quality recordings of filk — science-fiction and fantasy folk music We feature artists including Julia Ecklar, Leslie Fish, Vic Tyler, Kathy Mar, Bob Kanefsky, and many others
- Filk - Fanlore
Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction fantasy fandom The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid- 1970s An early mention of filk songs can be seen in the zine Day Star
- What is Filk? – Interfilk
Stylistically, filk is folk music Singers usually accompany themselves on acoustic instruments, most often guitars, but filkers plan everything from kazoos to Celtic harps to electric guitars and synthesizers to a collapsible electric cello (proving, once again, there always room for cello!)
- Filk: Science Fiction Folk Music. Part 1 - YouTube
This is an introduction to filk, the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy fan community
- Filk - fancyclopedia. org
Both a noun and a verb, filk refers to fan -written, fan-sung songs about science fiction or fannish themes and to the events, or filksings, where such music, known as filksongs, are performed by filkers The term grew from a 1953 typo (see Filk History)
- Filk Song - TV Tropes
Self-demonstration aside, "filk" is best described as the music of science fiction fandom, or at least, the music of the filk community Songs about SF books or movies, fandom in-jokes, or even just related topics such as computer geeky references are all common sources for filk
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