Along with all other industries across the world, the music industry has adopted technology to improve quality, distribution and profitability. With popular music being dependant on commercialization, can it ever be unplugged? Since the invention of the recording and amplifiers artists can express their talents across the world. If technology were to be eliminated, this commercial industry would fold and instead of being international, artists would have to refer to local or national coverage. The use of recording has allowed people the capability to listen to music where ever and when ever. Amplifiers have also played an important role, if taken away music from all forms of technology would not exist. Live acoustic performances would therefore be played to small groups in small arenas. Popular music would then change in style, context and content. Folk music would perhaps become popular music as it was hundreds of years ago, the thought of technology not existing would destroy a whole way of social life.
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