<b>ykcowrebbaJ</b> - Story as Song: Filking Children's Literature.

  • Doug Crane

Abstract

Filking is a modern folklore element that combines two seemingly disparate interests: singing and sci-fi conventions. How, then, does it relate to children's literature?

Author Biography

Doug Crane
David Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
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