minstrel: Filks

[Tadhg O Cuileannain]

That too--and the last bit is especially important.

Tadhg

--- Heather Rose Jones <hrjones at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
wrote:
> At 11:00 AM -0800 2/28/03, Tadhg O Cuileannain
> wrote:
> 
> >I can tactfully manage).  We have filk because
> there's
> >a large overlap between SCA and SF/fantasy fandom
> (the
> >term filk comes from SF Cons), and a lot of people
> >don't care to keep their enthusiasms separate.
> 
> I think I would tend to argue that we have filk
> because people 
> develop (or enter with) creative urges in advance of
> acquiring enough 
> fluency in historic idioms to channel their urges
> through them.  So 
> they channel their creative urges through the idioms
> that the _are_ 
> familiar and comfortable with.  Rechanneling the
> urges without 
> squashing them is, of course, the tricky part.
> 
> Tangwystyl
> -- 
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Tadhg O Cuilleannain of One Thousand Eyes
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