Without technology music would be based on the power of the human voice and handmade instruments, which before the 1900's was everything that anybody knew and understood about music, even still today places in the world rely on unplugged music and it is all they know.
Today in the society we live in, music would most likely cease to exist without electronic technology, music is based around recording the material and distrubuting the music for the audiences. Without any electronic technology nobody could listen to music or buy music via the internet or even from record shops such as HMV. Music would be either classical music, big band or acapella. The development of the amplifier, the microphone and the electric guitar was the landmark for music to be anything that it could be. Rock and Roll changed the way people saw music, it gave people a sense of freedom and expression and following this music festivals and concerts with events that changed the world like The Beatles at Shea Stadium and Woodstock and Live Aid would never of happened without electric technology.
I think that popular music can be unplugged depending on the society that you live in and the part of the world that you are. However in USA and the UK especially we have become conformed to popular music being in the charts and being commercialised. We rely on music using electric technology, which in my opinion is a shame as some of the most beautiful and intimate music is unplugged.
This covers many interesting and relevant points but it is almost twice as long as it should be.
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