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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.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Examples
- 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.
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Filk music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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.
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Filk song.
In general
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Filk song.
A filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filk song). Compare verb transitive sense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 2006, citation in the Filk Hall of Fame He has recently started to accompany himself on the piano, and created such wonderful songs as "The Soul" (filk of "The Ship") and "Internal Knight".
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To perform filk music.
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Usage: intransitive
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To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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To write a parody of (a song).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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- 1997 (?: "July A.S. XXXI") Medieval Melodies for Filking However, the practice of filking, of taking an existing melody and providing new, usually topical and/or satirical, lyrics, is in fact the direct counterpart of the Medieval practice of writing contrafacta.
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Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by science-fiction author Poul Anderson.
