"Taj Mahal found it distressing when his audience clapped wrong because it felt like a failure to emotionally connect with them." How do they know this? Did th

"Taj Mahal found it distressing when his audience clapped wrong because it felt like a failure to emotionally connect with them." How do they know this? Did they ask him or is this their assumption based on their expectations. It is annoying enough when researchers impute motive and thought to inanimate things. But people actually have them so it is all the more frustrating if they are assuming they know what he's feeling. The beat you emphasize has a great effect on the feel of the rhythm. Instead of "feeling like he failed to connect on emotionally," it could just be that he wanted them to hear the song as he intended to play it and without altering it's rhythmic nature.