Real music doesn't always require yelling or making enough noise to
carry any more than story-telling does.
Story-telling and music are similar in many ways. Many songs *are* stories.
And some git trying to play Hendrix on an acoustic will give up after a
relatively short while whereas a raucous group of people telling puerile
'jokes' seem to be able to go on for ever - there's a better developed
shift system.
And music, as someone has already pointed out, crosses language
and cultural differences whereas story-telling often highlights them.
I like both around a camp fire. When done quietly. And I like the
quiet gaps in between, too.
