Filk

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 13470

Carole Estes wrote:
> 
> By the way, what does filk stand for?  I write a
> lot of silly songs, but I didn't know there was a name for it.

Apparently it started life as a typo for "folk" on the program of
a science fiction convention, and went on from there to mean
"parody-type songs written to the tune of existing songs" up to
and including "fannish music in general."


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>