Filk Resources on the Web
These sites focus on filk activities throughout the world.
Updated July 24, 2001
Finding Filkers Online
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.
What's Filk?
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 A little outdated, but not much.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.
Filk Dealers and Publishers:
- DAG Productions
- Dragonfire or something like that
- Edition Pegasus Filk Music Shop, run by Kirstin. In German.
- Fangorn Audio. In Russian.
- Filklore British filk dealer
- Love Song Productions: Spencer Love
- Nepalm Music
- Prometheus Music
- Random Factors
- Raven Boy Music (SCA filk)
- Ray-Chords (German filk)
- Quicksilver Fantasies
- Southern Fried Filk, LLC
- WARP Graphics
Filk Discography
The Filk Discography, collected by Justin W. Eiler. A wonderfully useful project.
Eloise Beltz-Decker has reviews of some of her filk album collection.
Filk News
Fantasy Music Club. In Russian.
CBC Radio show episode about filk!
Filk History:
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
Filk Software
Pocket Printed Filk Database
Flktran, a PERL script for translating TEX.
Filk Movie:
- Shoggoth on the Roof: The Documentary There are some things man was never meant to sing. (I haven't seen this, but obviously I must. Soon.)
- Trekkies allegedly contains a filk. Unfortunately, said filk is sung a cappella by a nervous fan who's not particularly experienced with music. But this is a relatively minor point, as the filmmakers apparently wanted to show Trekfans as freaks and not as persons and took their time to show unflattering portrayals of many fannish activities. (And no, I haven't seen this, but then, the reviews didn't really make me want to. If I want a film about fandom that's both harsh and loving, I'll see Otaku no Video again.)
Filk in the UK:
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.
Filk in Germany (or at least in Deutsch):
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.
Filk in Russian:
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:
- Fanfic Speak
- Filk Glossary
- Gamer Jargon
- Pulp Glossary
- Reenactors' Glossary
- Science Fiction FanSpeak Dictionary
- A Science Fiction Glossary
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