Can popular music ever really be unplugged?

The crucial point that I believe needs to be considered with regards to this question is ‘scale’, as a genre of music can be exceptionally popular within a group of fifty people, but outside that fifty, know one may have heard said genre or artist.
As a consequence of this, without the use of electrical technology to broadcast music; such as the introduction of amplifiers (invented by Lee Defrost) and transistors (invented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld), which enabled artists to play to virtually any size audience, e.g. Woodstock and live Aid. It’s unlikely to become popular in the broad definition recognised today, at least not without extensively more travel, time and effort.
On the other hand, through not having one single definition, but instead a multitude of definitions of what popular music is, depending whose opinion you take, unplugged popular music can be made possible.

What is popular music.

One single definition of ‘popular’ must first be recognised prior to an overall definition for ‘popular music’ can be attained, though this is an almost impossible task, as a definition for popular has undergone continuous alteration since before the 16^th Century from positive to negative perceptions.

Individuals such as Anahid Kassabian have attempted to accurately define ‘popular music’, including references to ideas of homemade, good, and opposition to folk music, though there are several easily identifiable issues, such as; what is recognised as good? Alternatively Robert Burnett cited ‘popular music’ stems from commercially originated roots, though this may develop at later stages in a career, I believe musicians don’t enter the profession with the intention of becoming wealthy.

I believe Roy Shuker sums up popular culture most accurately; "Essentially, all popular music consists of a hybrid of musical traditions, styles and influences and is also an economic product which is invested with ideological significance by many of its consumers"