And Jerry, for bluegrass not being dance music, an awful lot of folks are up and moving around to it a lot at the festivals I go to! But as Ebbie noted, it isn't exactly pleasing to the eye sort of dancing! It isn't a structured sort of dance the way square dancing or polka is, for instance.

The haughty sniffing from some that the players' intention is NOT to make dance music (say in the same way a lot of instrumental Irish trad is dance music), there is a lot of audience movement to the music at bluegrass festivals especially.

But I agree, it is not a dance music tradition. It is a foot stompin' twirlin' in circles, and bobbin' up and down sort of music.

I think that high lonesome sound draws at least some stylistic conventions from shape note, hence it's highly stylized sound. It's either a sound you like or you don't, usually. Though for some it has become an acquired taste.

I like both the bluegrass solo singing and the harmony singing, depending upon the songs and the singers. I like old bluegrass and so-called newgrass. I'm enamored of the bluegrass albums Ricky Skaggs and Dolly Parton made. I don't own them, but I enjoy hearing them and would love to see them perform the songs live.