Here are two posts from that thread. The 2nd [re]post is in response to the first [and the initial] post to that thread.

Subject: Audience participation? OK?
From: Chet W. - PM
Date: 11 Jul 99 - 01:07 PM

After trying for years unsuccesfully to get people to sing along, on choruses at least, when I was performing in public, I had the opportunity to perform and to be an audience member in some European countries. My experience was that if people know the song, you don't have to try to get them to sing along, at least in Central Europe. What's it like where you live?
Chet

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Subject: RE: Audience participation? OK?
From: Jeri - PM
Date: 11 Jul 99 - 07:07 PM

I remember seeing an African American performer once who said he'd taken a trip to Africa expecting to hear those syncopated claps. Guess what - he said everyone he heard clapping was doing so on 1 and 3. I haven't heard enough African music to know where the claps fall or whether they might have once fallen in different places.