Now real storytelling unlike music is an art that does not
alwase require you to yell or make even enouph noise to carry the fifty
feet or so to the next fire.
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.