Interresting point, Ernest. Glad you stopped by. Harmony singing has been used to bring people together, whether it's in church, in war, at work or for political reasons. Over here, folk music in the 60's became predominantly protest music. Many years ago, during the days when I was bookly a folk concert series, I booked a bluegrass band. The audience was almost completely different from my usual one, and when I asked the audience to stop by as they were leaving and comment on why they never came to the folk concert, the two most memorable statements were that they didn't want to sit around all night listening to someone sing protest songs, and that folk music was for intellectuals and bluegrass was for working people. The first statement was much truer in the 60's, and ironically there is a lot of truth to the second statement. Maybe I'll start a thread about that... should stir up some interesting responses...

Jerry