sadI'm setting up the FAQ Pages over on my website, since it's a good way to keep my hands busy. One of the pages is, naturally enough, going to be questions about music and filk. I have three CDs, I attend a lot of filk conventions, it seems like a good thing to do. Now, I know that I have many non-filk readers on this journal. So I put forth this query:
What questions do you have about filk?
What questions do you have about my music in general?
Please let me know what it would help you to know, so that I can put all the pieces together coherently!
February 25 2009, 03:11:02 UTC 8 years ago
February 25 2009, 03:18:04 UTC 8 years ago
1: Filk is A) a parody of an existing song, usually with a SF&F slant, B) any original song that has a SF&F slant C) Folk music for SF&F fans, D) sometimes all of the above.
2: Yes. Weird Al's stuff? Totally filk, even if he doesn't know it.
3: Also yes. "Rocket Man"? Quite arguably filk, though that particular songwriter never wrote any other filks.
4: Often yes.
5: Gracious, no! There are a lot of female filkers!
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http://www.kayshapero.net/filkfaq.h
http://www.filking.net/filkfaq/
February 25 2009, 16:06:45 UTC 8 years ago
As I asked Beth, could you please, please stop answering the questions I asked people to ask me for my FAQ? It sort of defeats the purpose.
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