Popular music or even music in general could be unplugged only in a live setting. Even then however, effects of the technological equipment used to produce/distort or enhance the music itself is again using technology which is changing the sound.
Both gospel and folk music can exist without electronics but when you consider that they still have to be recorded on to CD in order to reach a larger audience, and expand; then they too rely on technology. Without amplification you would not have festivals, concerts, cd's, earphones, computers, stereo's that can play music.
In this day and age it is almost impossible to have popular music unplugged simply because of the sheer amount of technology used in every aspect of the musical industry. Electronic Music is an art form itself; with various genres of its own. The term Computer Music has come out of Electronic Music and with the advent of personal computing, and the growth of home-recording the term Computer Music can be used to describe any music that has been created using computing technology.
It seems that the two forms have become inextricably linked.
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This is quite a good post, at around the right length.
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