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filk, or filk music, is folk music written by and for fans of science fiction and fantasy. It is usually performed live at SF conventions. "There's a filk concert tonight in the con hotel lobby." "She mostly sings traditional English ballads and 60's folk, but she's recorded an album of Star Trek filk."
A filk, or filksong, is a song in the filk genre. "He's already written a filk about the new Star Trek movie."
Many filk songs, particularly those from the early years of filk (1950's thru 70's), use the music and structure of existing songs, and sometimes even many of the words, hence an alternate meaning of "filk" as a noun is a creative work (usually but not necessarily a song) that is based on a similar existing work. This type of filk is often a parody of the original song, but can be a non-parody adaptation. "'Fool to feed the drive' is a filk of Cindy McQuillin's song 'Fuel to feed the drive'." Filk in this sense can be used as a verb, to filk: "Kanef filked 'Velveteen Rabbit' into a song about necrophilia."
June 13, 2009