Can Popular Music Ever Really be Unplugged

Popular music can never really be unplugged due to a number of different reasons. The number of audiences/the fans that listen to popular music makes it impossible to have any chance of unplugging it and because of the kind of music genre produce with the technology it uses. You can’t have an unplugged album because it has already been plugged, once you have record music, its impossible to unplug it. Unplugged music gives the human voice the respect that is due. During a musical performance, the audience may be forgiving if a particular musical instrument cannot be heard, but they are not so forgiving if the vocalist cannot be discerned. (P. Theberge) quotes 'without electronic technology, popular music in the 21st century is unthinkable' which means that for an artist to produce unplugged music they would have play the instruments without the aid of amplifiers and sing without the use of a microphone.

Popular music can be classified as any genre of music that has a wide appeal amongst the general public of a society dominated by urban culture and advanced technology. In the 19^th century, popular music was accepted by the society as synonym for good. When we speak of popular music, we speak of music that is commercially oriented (Robert Burnet: The Globe Juk box, pg 35). Commercial in terms of having profits rather than artistic or other value as a primary aim. Every popular music output involves a piece of technology for its production. According to Nesun Dorma ‘Luciano Povorotti’ he suggested that popular music is what ‘lots’ of people like. The main definition given by Roy Shuker ‘understanding popular music’ pg 7, states that; essesntially, all popukar music consist of a hybrid of musical traditions styles and influence and is also an economic product which is inverted with ideological significance by many of its consumers