These sites focus on filk activities throughout the world.
Updated July 24, 2001
rec.music.filk, the filk newsgroup, and the FAQs.
Filknet: IRC and mailing lists.
Interfilk Filk Resources, including the directory of Filkers' Homepages.
Andromeda Filk Forum at Slipstream BBS' Slipstream News
Filkers' Blogs have their own page.
Filk 101 What's filk? Who the heck are these people? And other important questions answered. A little outdated, but not much.
The Dandelion Report: Online magazine providing filk information and advice.
The Filk Discography, collected by Justin W. Eiler. A wonderfully useful project.
Eloise Beltz-Decker has reviews of some of her filk album collection.
Fantasy Music Club. In Russian.
CBC Radio show episode about filk!
A history of filk by Lee Gold.
Greg McMullan's
Filk History: stories about filk,
filkers, songs, and everything else.
Fanhistory Filk
Project: songs about fannish history.
Banned from
Argo -- and the Filk Circuit
The Filk Hall of Fame
General Notes on
British Filk History
Juliane Honisch's
brief history of German & Austrian filk
Filk Primary Sources
List: credits for tunes, in case you don't recognize them yourself.
Solomon Davidoff's page
Pocket Printed Filk Database
Flktran, a PERL script for translating TEX.
filk.co.uk is Rafe Culpin's domain, providing the web with a central resource page for UK filk.
filk.org.uk is Mike Whitaker's domain, providing UK filkers with an easily remembered URL or e-mail address.
Die deutsche Filk-Mailingliste
Filk.de Your one-stop filk source.
Filk CONtinental: the European filk con, and
German cons
Pink Planet and
Let's Filk About pages include filk information
Berlin Filk Page: in German only (for now). Includes:German filkers: e-mail addresses, mundane and fannish names.Let's Filk
About: German filk fanzine. Also Table of ContentsList of
filk tapes and songbooks, with contents lists and some reviews
German
filk conventions
Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs), Christian Morgenstern.
Includes: Auf dem Fliegenplaneten; Der Werwolf; Der Zwoelf-Elf; and Der
Traum der Magd.
Deutsche
Lyrikparodien Parodies of German lieder, I think.
Filk and Star Trek Music in Austria and Germany courtesy of Bernd Felsberger. (And so far, unassimilated by Paramount/Viacom....) Includes Juliane Honisch's brief history of German & Austrian filk, with a list of recordings and songbooks available (keep scrolling down!) and a list of all Star Trek music.
Menestreli Sredizemlya(Minstrels of Middle-Earth): A collection of poems and songs in Russian, mostly based on Tolkien. Writers: VVedeniye, Mariya Ganzha, Larisa Denisook(sp?), Ingvall Kaldun, Tosha Kakovidi, Ketrin Kini, Tatyana Kukta (sp?), Oleg Ledenev, Mirta, Mithrilian, Miuti, Aleksandra Nezhdanova, Nienna, Skadi, Senta, Talle, Tem Greenhill, Svetlana Hvostenko (sp?), Hiziel, and Elrin.
Gateway to Russian Filk: my translation of the Russian filk pages. Use at your own risk, as I'm not the greatest Russian scholar.... :(
Filk in Japanese:
A
Japanese filk from
an animated Japanese movie about a filker, Mimi wo Sumaseba, aka
Please Listen Carefully, aka Whisper of the Heart.
If you know any other Japanese filk links, please e-mail me. Thank you.
Filk fanvideos: by Paul Kosinski and Mary Van Deusen
Filk fan pages:
DJ, an sf story by Carl Bussjaeger
The Unofficial Fenton the Death Sheep from Hell page! SEE Fenton
wreak destruction! READ his evil words in Sheepish! VOW eternal loyalty
to the Sheepocracy! Or be doomed like the rest of humanity. Whatever.
Club Jade Collectable
Karrde Game: Filks by Sir Dan. Take a look. Heh.
Writing
Filk by Judith Proctor
Jewelry by
Cynthia McQuillin, a filker of some note.
Fannish Glossaries:
Fellow travelers of filk:
Science
Fiction Poetry, defined by Suzette Haden Elgin.
Music Theory
Songs of the
Air Force
Airborne Music
The Contemplator's
Folk Music Resources
Phil Ochs
lyrics collection
Delos Radio
International plays music which may be sf oriented.
The Bermuda Files: a
Weird Al Yankovic site.
Premiere Radio Station's
parody song files
The Science Fiction References in Music
List
Twisted
Tunes Vault
The Ultimate Parody
Site