Hmm. If I'm understanding right, you're suggesting that filkers generally should value performance skills more than we do?
I sympathize, but 1) I think performance skills are already valued, and 2) I'm not sure how that would fit in with filk's tolerance of people (often people with little performance experience) with very low performance skills but a genuine desire to participate. That latter characteristic is something I really admire about filk, even if I sometimes find it a little difficult in the execution. It makes filk a "safe place" to start out.
Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding, and it's not that you think we should emphasize performance skills, but that we should widen the repertoire of filk circles to include more folk music and other genres? I think that would be cool too.
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I sympathize, but 1) I think performance skills are already valued, and 2) I'm not sure how that would fit in with filk's tolerance of people (often people with little performance experience) with very low performance skills but a genuine desire to participate. That latter characteristic is something I really admire about filk, even if I sometimes find it a little difficult in the execution. It makes filk a "safe place" to start out.
Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding, and it's not that you think we should emphasize performance skills, but that we should widen the repertoire of filk circles to include more folk music and other genres? I think that would be cool too.