Date: 24 Feb 1997 12:38:11 -0500



In article ,
Ken Dawe  wrote:
>
> Ab> From: abilodea@indiana.edu (aaron douglas bilodeau)
> Ab> Dan Goodman (dsgood@visi.com) wrote:
> > 
> > Filking is probably older than the name; probably _very_ slightly
> > younger than written-sf fandom.
> > 
> Ab> If you're talking about SF-related songs and stuff, you're 
> Ab> probably right.
> Ab> If you're talking about the practice of putting new words to old
> Ab> music, on the other hand... ;)
>
>Then you're talking about FOLK music!  
>Changing the words, or writing entirely new ones, is part of "The
>Folk Process". (God, letting solciologists loose on folk music!) (A
>natural fit, some would say...)

Filk is _deliberately_ changing the words; folk process is changing them
more or less by accident.

This is not a new discussion on this group :) IIRC in a previous run of
this thread, it was revealed that in the Middle Ages, filk was called
"Contrefait" and referred to both writing a secular song to a religious
tune and writing a religious song to a secular tune. 

ObFilk:
"Oh Lord won't you buy me
Some new words to sing..."

=Tamar Lindsay (sharing account dickeney@access.digex.net)

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