I think there are probably several factors.

One is there are often Christmas carols around the tree in the town square..although that is probably being squelched.

One is that songs are looked on as a way to scold often as opposed to heal or regroup. In general, I am not fond of those songs, but others obviously are..but sometimes they are sung to make people feel bad rather than good.

Churches have lost many of their congregations. And I will keep saying it till I drop dead but the Catholic church turned from beautiful to very ugly music overnight and lots of people are Catholic and lost their beautiful hymns.

We live in bigger cities and often don't have communities except at work and most work environments don't lend themselves to singing..although they say if you go out at night you can hear the Mexican Americans singing as they dig oysters near here...

A lot of music has been uglified over the years.

A lot of scorning takes place..if someone likes country western etc...they can be scorned in many places..but that is about as close as we can come to group music often.

People are afraid to be leaders...we do believe in America about people being equal etc...but they can't usually start singing int he same key and same tune etc. without strong leaders..

There are all sorts of political boundaries etc...

But we had a fishing catastrophe here recently..I did not attend the service for the one local man, but I suspect that they did all sing...

Well, that is enough for now...