Acoustic Music - Genre

The genre I have decided to explore is acoustic music.

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Acoustic music has been around for many years and is becoming even more popular. The art of acoustic music has been performed throughout the centuries, and throughout the world.

Acoustic music can be defined as music that is created from using instruments without using any form of electronic means. It was only after the arrival of electrical instruments such as the electric guitar, that this type of music started to get a name for itself. Of course the advent of these electrical instruments is relatively new compared to the amount of time that music has been played for, therefore, you can almost class all musical instruments and all music as acoustic. If electrical instruments were never invented, music would be all acoustic and might not have never had a specific name.

However acoustic songs can be produced and edited through electrical means and if there is a gig or concert being played by an acoustic artist, very often, the sound is amplified using electronic amplifiers. But it has to be done caringly to maintain the natural sound accurately. Electronic amplifiers are only used to increase the volume of the sound from the acoustic instrument.

One of the most popular types of acoustic music is acoustic guitar songs. These types of songs seem very intimate and personal as mostly it is just one person and their guitar performing the song. This type of music is often played in music bars, with open microphone nights and they seem to be very popular. Acoustic guitars create music through the vibration of the strings but to increase the sound, an acoustic guitar uses a soundboard, resonant cavity and a sound box.

Many television programs now support the acoustic music scene such as MTV's Unplugged, created in the 1990's, and Radio 1's Live Lounge where original and covered acoustic songs are played to thousand of viewers and listeners. These types of productions try to promote acoustic music in an effort to get music back to basics and to increase the quality of music that people are listening to.

Some see solo acoustic songs as a breath of fresh air due to the increasing production of often computerised, synthetic and cluttered music that sometimes dominates the charts. Therefore acoustic music is often thought of as being more pure then other forms of music, as it is played in its raw and natural.

There are now many acoustic artists becoming famous through their music and one particular city that is producing them is Glasgow, Scotland. There are many acoustic artists in Glasgow that have become very well known, and there are plenty of venues in Glasgow where you are sure to see them play.

Acoustic music is a natural form of music and when performed correctly, it can produce sounds better than any computer generated sound. It is a musical art form that will never lose popularity.