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Maybe you've moved on from Wizard Rock or Time Lord Rock and you're looking for something fresh.
So whether you call it Tribute Rock, or Rockingjay, there's now a really good chance that The Hunger Games has
a healthier music scene than your hometown.
When we talk about fan-created music, whether the subject is Doctor Who or Draco Malfoy, we're
talking about Filk. Literally originating from a typo when someone was trying to write
about science fiction and folk music, filk took hold with the rise of sci-fi fandom and sci-fi conventions,
powered by the Futurians.
The Futurians counted future Hugo award winners, Weird Tales contributors, and Isaac Asimov
amongst their ranks. The left-leaning off-shoot of the Greater New York Science Fiction
Club, they hung out at the science fiction conventions that were just starting to pop up at
the end of the '30 and wrote sci-fi tinged protest songs to fill the late and *** nights.
It was in the '50s that filk got its name, a typo from an article about science fiction culture
and modern folk music. By the '70s, it was an established part of convention culture.
Filking had its own awards, filking had its own cons, filking had a hall of fame.
And then filking went to Hogwarts.
Harry and the Potters were the first Wizard Rock band, or wrock band. They inspired a
legion of new filk music that was wholly Potter-centric, from Draco and the Malfoys to the Remus Lupins.
And of course the popularity of wrock inspired an entire trend of fandom-specific filk.
Like Trock.
Time Lord Rock is, of course, Whovian-themed power jams
The other Trock, is Tribute Rock, which is just music about the Hunger Games. And appropriately enough, this guy --
Is one the genre's biggest names.
That's Alex Carpenter. He is great at writing filk song, and not very good at lighting his
guitar on fire.
But Carpenter is hardly alone in his TRIBUTE to the book
and movie - dubbed Rockingjay, since Trock was technically taken
by the Whovians already, artists like ALL CAPS are dropping major jams all about your favourite dystopian
sci-fi child murdering saga.
Oh, ***.
Much nicer. That's Steph Anderson. She seems not very murderous at all. Just like other nice folks like District 13
and Sam Cushion, who actually wrote a series of scores for the
Hunger Games, including a beautiful orchestral version of Rue's Lullaby, a song that appears in
the book that tons of people have adapted their own melodies online.
Ah.
Oh.
Do you filk? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to subscribe to AUX for more This Exists
every week. We've got links to all the videos and few other Rockingjay jams in the description.
And may the odds be ever in your favour.