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filk | silk |

As adjectives the difference between filk and silk

is that filk is (of music) about or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying (however, much filk music is original rather than parodic) while silk is made of.

As nouns the difference between filk and silk

is that filk is filk music while silk is (uncountable) a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).

As verbs the difference between filk and silk

is that filk is to perform filk music while silk is to remove the silk from (corn).

filk

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (of music) About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.)
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1955 , date = June , author = Karen Anderson & (writing as "Petronius Arbiter Kingsley") , title = Filk Song , magazine = Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (aka The Zed) , issue = 780 , page = 13 , passage = The blame/credit (choose one) for the first filk' song is a little dubious. Like the man who tried to sit on two stools, it falls in the middle, between Poul Anderson who wrote a ' filk song called Barbarous Allen and Karen Anderson who egged him on and published it in Zed
  • 774.
    • }}
  • * 2000, Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=oCvIZpCSRA0C] University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-1530-3, page 38,
    • And the permanent exhibit area offers a filk performance on a small stage so that neophytes can sample more esoteric interests.
  • * 2006, , [[w:Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing], ISBN 1-56163-465-4, page 97,
    • I’m also involved in what is called filk music. This is music for and by fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. […] Filk is nearly as big a part of my creative life as comics, and I have similarly made many friends among the creative people in that community.
  • * 2007, Brian Longhurst, Popular Music and Society ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=PxnOFDDMZOUC] Polity, ISBN 0745631622, page 236,
    • Music can be very important in fan texts and activities. Fans write and perform songs at gatherings about characters from television shows, not unlike the way that folk songs are sung in folk clubs. This can be seen in the name of this fan form: filk' song. According to [in ''Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture''], ' filk songs take their cue from commercial culture. They are about the characters from commercial television series, but ‘Filk turns commercial culture back into folk culture, existing as a mediator between two musical traditions. Its raw materials come from commercial culture; its logic is from folk culture’ (1992: 270).

    Derived terms

    * filker * filksing

    Noun

  • Filk music.
  • * 1992, , Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=71U9-cOx_ZwC] Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90572-9, page 270,
    • Filk turns commercial culture back into folk culture, existing as a mediator between two musical traditions. Its raw materials come from commercial culture; its logic is from folk culture.
  • * 2006, Gary Hill, The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZyFoBl6M6LEC] Lulu.com, ISBN 1-84728-776-X, page 216,
    • The style of music generally used for creating filk' is folk or popular music. That brings up one of the key points. Most, but not all, ' filk is created by "borrowing" the music of other songs and creating lyrics to fit the singer's particular circle of fandom.
  • * 2006, , [[w:Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing], ISBN 1-56163-465-4, page 97,
    • I’m also involved in what is called filk music. This is music for and by fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. […] Filk is nearly as big a part of my creative life as comics, and I have similarly made many friends among the creative people in that community.
  • Filk song.
  • # In general
  • #* 2001, Harry Potter Filks
  • Welcome to Harry Potter Filks', with nearly 3400 ' filks (including several dozen full-length musicals) by more than 250 authors from at least five continents, all on Rowling-related themes. ... Providing a magic beyond all that Dumbledore does here since August 2 2001. Most recently updated April 29 2010.
  • # In the construction "filk of...": a filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filksong). Compare transitive sense.
  • #* 2006, citation in the Filk Hall of Fame
  • He has recently started to accompany himself on the piano, and created such wonderful songs as "The Soul" (filk of "The Ship") and "Internal Knight".

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perform filk music.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1978 , first = Sarah Elizabeth , last = Miller , title = I Could Have Filked All Night , page = 33 , passage = I could have filked all night }}
  • To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
  • To write a parody of (a song). Compare .
  • * 1997 (?: "July A.S. XXXI") Medieval Melodies for Filking
    • However, the practice of filking , of taking an existing melody and providing new, usually topical and/or satirical, lyrics, is in fact the direct counterpart of the Medieval practice of writing contrafacta.

    See also

    * folk music * (filk music)

    References

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    silk

    English

    (wikipedia silk)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
    • The silk thread was barely visible.
  • (uncountable) A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
    • I had a small square of silk , but it wasn't enough to make what I wanted.
  • That which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
  • The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
  • (colloquial) A Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.

    • Derived terms

    * make a silk purse of a sow's ear * silken * silky * silkweaver * silkweaving * silkworm * smooth as silk * take silk

    See also

    * sericin

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of .
  • *
  • *:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk -hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  • Looking like silk, silken.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the silk from (corn).
  • * 2013 , Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came (page 17)
    • While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes

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