Popular music is music that is made to sell. People listen to pop through electronic media.
As a starting point pop should be plugged in, since the principle concept behind rock and roll and other forms of popular music is either to express the rebellion of youth or to provide something people can dance to, usually both. Most popular music is meant to be loud and therefore plugged in.
That’s not to say that some unplugged music is not popular. If it sounds good and people buy it, then it’s popular music!
The fashion for unplugged music was created by MTV when they got rock performers like Eric Clapton and Nirvana to play acoustically. The series stripped the music down to the bare essentials and a great song is always a great song. However all the artists that appeared on the show made their names from using a lot of electronics and digital technology.
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This post does a reasonable job of outlining the nature of unplugged music but is less successful at assessing its validity in a modern context.
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