Humpback whale songs: Do they organize males during the breeding season?

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Songs of male humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, are involved in intersexual interactions (2008, unknown): “…that have concentrated on behavioural aspects of individual singers have shown that, although singing whales are usually lone individuals, song seems to be important in interactions between conspecifics (Tyack 1981; Frankel et al. 1995; Darling & Bérubé 2001; Noad 2002; Darling et al. 2006).”
Humpback whale song hierarchical structure: Historical context and discussion of current classification issues (2013, background): “…whales were shown to be males (Glockner 1983), and the function of song within the breeding season was hypothesized to play a role in female attraction (Winn andWinn 1978, Herman and Tavolga 1980, Tyack 1981) or mediate male-male interactions (Darling 1983, Darling et al. 2006, Cholewiak 2008).”