Week 5 - Can Popular music ever really be unplugged?

One of the main problems with this argument is that the second you use any kind of technology, it becomes much harder to define music as being unplugged.

When considering whether or not music can actually be unplugged you have to take into consideration whether or not this means the exclusion of technology as there is a vast difference between this and the use of electricity. If it doesn’t then we could argue that music that involves the use of classical, acoustic instruments or a live performance with no microphones could really be considered unplugged. However if we look at any form of instrument as being a technology then it becomes harder to put this music in the unplugged category. There will however always be the exceptions for example an opera singer (without a microphone) or a gospel choir singing in a church. This really would be unplugged as the music they produce is solely vocal and could not be considered technological, instrumental or electronic.