Intellectualizing and mass marketing and no privacy -- this has been an interesting thread.
About 20 years ago Mike Seeger did a show in Austin, Texas, with the cooperation of the trad. music group I belonged to. I got to go to the afterparty, where I chatted with Mike a bit, he having worked with my mother for a time. In the conversational group we were in the subject of "Keep On The Sunny Side" came up. I muttered and tried to back out of the group, but Mike stopped me. I explained that I had heard about that song all my life, but had heard the song itself (maybe) only once. There was a moment of stunned silence and Seeger made a remark about that deficiency being remedied forthwith. I became the center of a circle of musicians, and we sang that song for 20 minutes -- twenty. It was hard to sing because of the omniphonic harmonies whirling around me -- but it was harder NOT to sing because the pressure of the music forced my mouth open and my vocal chords to vibrate. Learn by doing.    Tw