Editing Filk music (section)

==History==
{{anchor|etymology}}In the early 1950s, the term ''filk music'' started as a misspelling of ''folk music'' in an essay by Lee Jacobs, "The Influence of Science Fiction on Modern American Filk Music". Wrai Ballard, then editor of the Spectator [[amateur press association|Amateur Press Society]] refused to publish it for fear that the article's bawdy content could get them into trouble with the [[United States Postal Inspection Service|Post Office]] under the [[Comstock Laws]], but found the typo itself amusing, and mentioned it repeatedly;<ref name="Gold97">{{cite web |last1=Gold |first1=Lee |author-link1=Lee Gold |title=An Egocentric and Convoluted History of Early Filk and Filking |url=http://www.fanac.org/Fan_Histories/filkhist.html |access-date=20 November 2014 |website=Fanac.org |quote=Lee Jacobs, a LArea [= Los Angeles area] fan who [...] in the 50s, [had] submitted an essay to SAPS (Spectator Amateur Press Society) entitled "The Influence of Science Fiction on Modern American Filk Music" supposedly about science fiction incidents in folk song, but actually a straight-faced analysis of a number of thoroughly filthy "dirty songs", taking various metaphors in them as if they were meant literally.}} Originally published in the ''[[ConChord]] 12 Songbook'', 1997</ref> thus, Jacobs's typo became the self-identified term for the genre/subculture while it was still an informal, unrecognized activity at conventions. Its first documented deliberate use was by [[Karen Anderson (writer)|Karen Anderson]] in ''Die Zeitschrift für vollständigen Unsinn'' (''The Journal for Utter Nonsense'') No. 774 (June 1953), for a song written by her husband [[Poul Anderson]].<ref name="firstUse">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nightsong.com/filk/twippledop/ |title=Tracking Down The First Deliberate Use Of "Filk Song" |access-date=25 November 2006 |first=Lee |last=Gold |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206001047/http://www.nightsong.com/filk/twippledop/ |archive-date=6 December 2012 }}</ref>

At the 1974 [[World Science Fiction Convention]] author [[Robert Asprin|Bob Asprin]] announced publicly the creation of a group of volunteers he dubbed the Dorsai Irregulars, and a singing session ensued later that night.<ref name="dorsaiHistory">{{Cite web |url= http://www.di.org/di_f_his.htm |title=Filk Music and the Dorsai Irregulars |access-date=25 November 2006|website=Di.org |author=John Hall}}</ref> In the 1970s and 1980s, filking slowly became established as an acknowledged activity at science fiction conventions. Some convention organizers allotted hotel function space late at night for filkers, or filking occurred in hallways, bars or any other place that the filkers could find. Some convention organizers in the 1980s began inviting guests specifically for their filking. Some specialized conventions focused entirely on filk, beginning with FilkCon in Chicago in 1979, organized by Margaret Middleton and Curt Clemmer, later joined by BayFilk in Northern California; the [[Ohio Valley Filk Fest]] (OVFF) in Columbus, Ohio; ConChord in Los Angeles and in San Diego,<ref>{{cite web |title=ConChord History Pages |url= http://www.sandiegofilk.com/ConchordMain.html|website=Sandiegofilk.com |access-date=23 September 2016}}</ref> California; GAFilk in Atlanta, Georgia;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gafilk.org/|title=GAFilk: Georgia Filk Convention|website=Gafilk.org}}</ref> Musicon in [[Nashville, Tennessee]]; [[FilKONtario]] near [[Toronto]], Ontario; a rotating British filkcon, and one (NEFilk) in the northeastern US;<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.nefilk.us/| title=The Northeast Filk Convention|website=Nefilk.us}}</ref> and the German FilkCONtinental.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filkcontinental.de/fc/home/index.php|title=FilkCONtinental|website=Filkcontinental.de|access-date=28 May 2022}}</ref>