The tradition
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has existed since the early 1950s and been played primarily since the mid-1970s. The genre has a niche but faithful popularity in the underground.¶
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Filk music”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶
filk is folk music of science fiction fandom, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 10 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
0 claims and 0 timeline entries on this page draw on 1 sources, deduplicated by publisher.
| Source | Type | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata: filk (Q1414130) | database | Wikidata |
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