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I absolutely adore the song, 'Nearer my God to Thee' and the Allen family gets together and makes it quite uniquely their own. The creativity that comes about in friend circles and family groups is unmatched.

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THE Allen Family Singing together Christmas day 2017

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"...genre frames and sets of shared values among the fans of a given genre. Jazz fans expect creativity... Britney Spears fans might hope to hear a performance that closely mirrors the recordings.. (Turino 63)."
I use this quote because this is quite a true part of reality for presentational music. It always DEPENDS on the audience. I mention this in my post about the band Neck Deep.

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I recently went to a concert performed by a British pop punk band. It was performative, very obviously. But if you were in the crowd as I was you might feel otherwise. The energy transferring through each and every body of that crowd, creating a wave forward, a wave to the side, an incredibly thrust upward as everyone just puts all their effort into screaming those lyrics.
This is just to show that not every performance is like your idea of sitting in a seat and listening. It can involve quite a bit of participation from the audience.
It was not participatory, but man, it might have been half way there.

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Attending Florence and the Machine was a concert I attended where it was very much understood everyone was there to watch Florence Welch be Florence Welch. She is an incredible performer, in both her singing and her dancing. This was a concert that FELT at it's core a performative art meant to elicit emotion through song.

Photo credit: https://www.thesnipenews.com

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"Presentational music is a field involving one group of artists PROVIDING" music for another, the audience... (Turino, 52.)
It does feel as though there is a negative light shed on presentational music. In some ways it does feel less authentic of a creative experience, HOWEVER, I think it important to note and to think about presentational music as a SERVICE to others. It is in the definition.

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My music making experience occurs in the confines of car rides and those days in the home where my family and I feel an extra bit of merriment. Around the holidays my mother and I will kick the music up a notch and she'll play the Christmas tunes at the piano while I sing along. It's merry. There isn't a time where my girlfriend and I will be jamming to the radio, or maybe she's playing her guitar, and we don't end up smiling and laughing alongside one another.
When you compare these events with the constructed concerts we've all been to, then we can see that music we participate in and music presented to us both elicit a sense of happiness within us.
The stark differences between presentational and participatory music are the reasons we love each one. When you go to a concert everyone is, yes, everyone is excited to listen to music, but the majority of the time the hype is really around seeing THAT singer we love, or THAT band play. We often create a god complex around the musician we congregate to see. When compared to participatory music this truly is not the case.

Both have values and positive experiences, but the experience is quite different.

Feeling APART of something is incredibly important for each and every one of us whether we want to accept that or not. There are some sticklers out there who will refuse to dance along, to sing along, and get themselves integrated with artistic, self, or group expression. I think this comes from the idea that those who are not "professional" musicians are not supposed to engage the music, but just sit back and "appreciate it." What I think; what's more appreciative of art than to ENGAGE with it. That's what art is for!