In this current day and age, to find totally unplugged music would be a challenge, much has evolved through the years and this includes music. The revolution of music have caused both music and technology to merge together, becoming hand in hand to form popular music.
Technology sells music, a studio set up is based on the extensive use of electronics such as pianos, microphones and vocal enhancers.
Music has evolved so much, it has become unimaginable to picture it without technology, popular music has become increasingly reliant on its usage to a point whereby the more technology/effects used the more successful you become as an artist. An example of this is the current popularity of the use of auto-tune, used by artists such as T-Pain & Kanye West (originally popularized as 'talk box' used by Stevie Wonder). In these current times it would be hard to find unplugged music (yet alone pop music) with the popularity of concerts, music videos and increased lip-syncing.
Places in which you can find music in it's rawest forms ('unplugged') is probably in churches and schools, although it is debatable whether this would be classified as 'popular music'.
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This is a decent post. I agree that church and school music is probably a good example of truly unplugged areas but as you say, are they popular music?
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