Kantele: A Filksing Fanzine

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Zine
Title: Kantele: A Filksing Fanzine
Publisher: The Filk Foundation
Editor(s): Margaret Middleton
Type: filk
Date(s): 1978-1984
Medium: print zine
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Fandom: filk
Language: English
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Kantele: A Filksing Fanzine is the first filk fanzine published. There are at least 14 issues. Edited and published by Margaret Middleton. The first three issues are in collaboration with Clif Flynt.

About

"Kantlee is a filk fanzine with relevant text of the usual zine type, plus songs, some with sheetmusic. A "goodie" for active (or even devoted passive) filkers."[1]

"Named for a Finnish instrument of the dulcimer family, it ran for fourteen issues, the last being dated Winter 1984-85. It was the frst to publish some enduring songs on paper, including Joe Haldeman’s “The Ballad of Orbital Hubris” and Anne Passovoy’s “Harbors.”[2]

Issue 11

Kantele: A Filksing Fanzine 11 was published in Summer 1983 and contains 19 pages. It was edited by Margaret Middleton.

cover by Wayne Wahl-Brenner
  • Must Filk be Written by Humans by George Hawk (1)
  • More on Green Hills by Hans Loose (1)
  • Songsearch (1)
  • Passing the...??? by Peter Schorn (2)
  • art by Wayne Wahl-Brenner (2)
  • Metallic Musings: Tablature by Bill Maraschiello (3)
  • art by Mel White (4)
  • Natters from the Jello-Bowl by Teri Lee, Cathy Cook and Jordin Kare (5)
  • art by Wayne Wahl-Brenner (6)
  • Double Your Pleasure by msm (6)
  • Report on Filkcon 4.2 by msm (6)
  • Counterpoints by George Hawk, Robert Heinlein, Peter Schorn, and Bill Maraschiello (7)
  • Roster Update/Lost Persons (8)
  • Encounter of the Long-Count Keeper by Barbara MacLeod (9)
  • Freeway Filkers by San Diego Fandom/LA Filkers Anonymous (from the Bayfilk I Not So Instant Songbook) (11)
  • Gypsies of Heaven by Mel White (12)
  • Here's to the Brave Adventurers by Claire and Own Stephens (13)
  • It's Impossible by Naomi Konoff (14)
  • Promises by Bill Roper (15)
  • Rogue's Gallery by Roberta and Louise Rogow (16)
  • Cabin Fever by Georgia Barnes, Kathleen McDonald, Leslie Fish, and Raven (from the Bayfilk I Not So Instant Songbook) (17)
  • Whatever Happened to the Dragons by Dennis Drew (18)
  • art by Linda Leach (19)

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Gary McGath: Tomorrow's Songs Today: The History of Filk Music.