[Wolves] Loograaaahdeo
AlexG
wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun May 18 17:12:00 2003
> Actually, has anyone come across that rather pretentious area of human
> endeavour, filk? It's cyberspace folk music, from what I remember.
For a better definition, try the Filk FAQ.
http://home.earthlink.net/~kayshapero/filkfaq.htm
It initialy claims to be folk of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, but I know that a
lot of live-roleplay groups write songs about charachters, events or even
thier tabletop charachters if the story is silly enough to create a song
that can be sung, while drunk, around a camp fire. Re-enactment and living
history societies also include some of thier songs in the Filk tradition.
A lot of the songs use in jokes, or refer to specific people in the society
who have gained fame/infamy for something.
You can tell what I spent my university years doing cant you? ;-)
Alex G
"It is better to have wasted your childhood, than done nothing with it at
all"