I do have a lot more reason to remember my own articles. :p
You're completely right about which definitions take over and there can be disagreement. That's partly the bone of contention here, you say that a specific definition is the one but there's no source given and no links to follow up on. Is that the dominant definition or just one of many?
In your comment, you are also conflating two things when you say "Pepper Coyote, Fox Amoore, etc are considered furry musicians" and "It's hard to make music 'furry' if there is no lyrics, so if you take your definitions, furries who play instruments can never be 'furry musicians' they can only be musicians." Whether a musician is furry and whether their music is furry are two separate questions. A musician is furry as long as they are fur; it doesn't matter if they are a vocalist or not.
Furry music is furry because of it's characteristics or context. Lyrical content is an obvious way for a song to be furry, i.e. NIIC's Paws to the Wall. What about instrumental pieces? Context dependent. There are a lot of instrumental tracks on Fox Amoore's Skies of Astar album and I would consider them furry music. Not because Fox Amoore is a fur but because of the context of those tracks. They form the soundtrack to a furry puppet show which was written for and performed at Eurofurence. If Fox Amoore wrote an instrumental track for some other event which was not connected to the fandom then they would lack the context which makes them furry.
The fact that something is performed by a fur is not sufficient. Imagine an instrumental performed by a duo consisting of a furry violinist and a non-furry pianist. Is that a furry song or a non-furry song? Is only the violin part furry but the piano part not? Nuka, Uncle Kage and myself are all furs. We are all scientists. We are all furry scientists. Nuka's work studies the sociological aspects of the furry fandom, it is furry science. Uncle Kage does chemistry and I do microbiology. Neither of those has any relation to the fandom and our papers are not furry science.
As for the trio of questions at the end... Yes, I'd consider What does the fox say? as furry music. I don't know the second song at all. I would certainly say the music video for Lone Digger is furry but I don't recall anything about the lyrics to say that the song is.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
I do have a lot more reason to remember my own articles. :p
You're completely right about which definitions take over and there can be disagreement. That's partly the bone of contention here, you say that a specific definition is the one but there's no source given and no links to follow up on. Is that the dominant definition or just one of many?
In your comment, you are also conflating two things when you say "Pepper Coyote, Fox Amoore, etc are considered furry musicians" and "It's hard to make music 'furry' if there is no lyrics, so if you take your definitions, furries who play instruments can never be 'furry musicians' they can only be musicians." Whether a musician is furry and whether their music is furry are two separate questions. A musician is furry as long as they are fur; it doesn't matter if they are a vocalist or not.
Furry music is furry because of it's characteristics or context. Lyrical content is an obvious way for a song to be furry, i.e. NIIC's Paws to the Wall. What about instrumental pieces? Context dependent. There are a lot of instrumental tracks on Fox Amoore's Skies of Astar album and I would consider them furry music. Not because Fox Amoore is a fur but because of the context of those tracks. They form the soundtrack to a furry puppet show which was written for and performed at Eurofurence. If Fox Amoore wrote an instrumental track for some other event which was not connected to the fandom then they would lack the context which makes them furry.
The fact that something is performed by a fur is not sufficient. Imagine an instrumental performed by a duo consisting of a furry violinist and a non-furry pianist. Is that a furry song or a non-furry song? Is only the violin part furry but the piano part not? Nuka, Uncle Kage and myself are all furs. We are all scientists. We are all furry scientists. Nuka's work studies the sociological aspects of the furry fandom, it is furry science. Uncle Kage does chemistry and I do microbiology. Neither of those has any relation to the fandom and our papers are not furry science.
As for the trio of questions at the end... Yes, I'd consider What does the fox say? as furry music. I don't know the second song at all. I would certainly say the music video for Lone Digger is furry but I don't recall anything about the lyrics to say that the song is.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~