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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 400 items) |
Abstract | The collection contains filk music songbooks, lyrics, sheet music, and zines from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Included are the “Filk Bible,” “The First Ozark Trilogy Filksong Collection,” and issues of the zine, The PHILK-FEE-NOM-EE-NON, irregularly published by the Philk Press in conjunction with meetings of the Southern California Filkers Anonymous group. Much of the filk music represented in the collection has popular science fiction and fantasy fiction themes including homages to Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
A summary description was created in May 2018 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Encoded by: Laura Smith, May 2018
Updated: February 2020
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The collection contains filk music songbooks, lyrics, sheet music, and zines from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Included are the “Filk Bible,” “The First Ozark Trilogy Filksong Collection,” and issues of the zine, The PHILK-FEE-NOM-EE-NON, irregularly published by the Philk Press in conjunction with meetings of the Southern California Filkers Anonymous group. Much of the filk music represented in the collection has popular science fiction and fantasy fiction themes including homages to Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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Songbooks, lyrics, sheet music, and zines |