Hello 2015

[Eugene Leitl]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Lorin Rivers wrote:

> There's suspension of disbelief and then there's "oh please".
>
> OK, I can watch "Lord of the Rings" and love it, but ask me to
> believe a bunch of anonymous strangers can spontaneously break into
> song and dance about in rhythm? I don't think so.

I don't know about dance, but people singing together was very widespread
in rural communities (usually during harvest; depending on degree of
industralization, there might be some pockets of it still left in the 3rd
world). Advent of radio and TV pretty much kills oral culture, though.

Dance was usually reserved for more formal settings.