(urth) Wolfe in music?

Jerry Friedman jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Wed May 25 07:30:58 PDT 2011


> From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>

> 
> Fewer clothes = easier costume.

And it works for guys who have or like to pretend they have builds they can show 
off.

> It's strange now that I think about it.  People who cosplay at cons are often 
> also part of the "filk" scene. (It's  basically fan fiction in folk song form, 

> for those who haven't been  subjected to ten+ minute renditions on David 
>Eddings 
>
> plot summaries in  three-chord format before, like I have...) Metal and folk 
> don't often go  hand in hand, do they? Or do they? I don't know much about 
>metal.
> 
> What  kind of music does Wolfe mention in his books? I'm drawing a blank on 
> whether he describes much of the music in New/Long/Short Sun in  particular.
 
I can only think of folk songs--"Born beneath a shooting star" and "Sad 
experience teaches me" and such.  There must be other music, though.

"The Tale of the Student and His Son" mentions dancing to celebrate the victory 
over the Minotaur/Monitor, but says nothing about the music.

On  5/23/2011 2:02 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> Of course, the really  hilarious thing is that I highly doubt Gene himself is 
>into anything  remotely like all that!  (Nor was Tolkien, who found his way into 
>
>Led Zeppelin and others.)
...

I vaguely remember reading that he does in fact listen to "headbanging heavy 
metal", but I can't find it on the Web.

Certainly the title /There are Doors/ is from the cover of the Doors' first 
album, not that that's exactly heavy metal.

Jerry Friedman




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