Firstly we need to define what unplugged means in terms of music, according to the Cambridge dictionary unplugged describes musicians performing without electric instruments and without amplification. There has been a trend in recent years where artists have performed unplugged using acoustic instruments, the use of performing unplugged enables audiences to hear the vocalists in their real human voice instead of the amplified voice. Unplugged performances seem to be the way to show audiences that the music is genuine and can be performed the same as when heard on radio broadcasts, television programs or on CD’s. But popular music is never really unplugged; the songs have to be created with the use of electrical instruments and with amplification to make it stand out and appeal to the wider audiences and the use of electrical equipment in performances enables the artist to perform better, so it is not a unplugged performance.
Friday, 29 January 2010
Can Popular Music ever really be unplugged?
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The thing with many unplugged performances is that they still use amplification for the instruments and vocals. The implication is that this amplification is simply a neutral means of making the sound louder when in fact it quite clearly colours the sound. This post is OK but it is slightly lacking in detail.
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