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.
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This is quite good but there are one or two issues. Lee Deforest actually invented the Audion (a kind of valve) which was used in amplifiers rather than inventing the amplifier itself. While I appreciate your reframing of the question I think that you have wandered off topic a little.
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