It is good to hear of organized group singing opportunities, and as the author said, "People who enjoy singing get together in homes to make music with friends, and choral groups abound."

What this article gets at is more public functions of group singing: "It's the community-oriented, community-building, sometimes spontaneous kind of singing that's suffering." Her examples that I quoted are the ball game, the public mourning gathering, Occupy Wall Street.

I have seen reports of "We Shall Overcome" being sung recently at demonstrations about the Trayvon Martin case. Presumably a crowd of that kind would have a cohort of people who had sung that before and who could lead it...

~ Becky in Tucson