Is it reasonable to consider that rock music is gendered male

On an overlook of rock music many people would straight away gender it male, this has to come from a more in depth social structure.  Charlotte Greig mentions that for a woman to become successful she must become ‘masculine. This concept is interesting looking up female rock artists on Google provides a strong back up of this, these women are very masculine with their dress code, hair and bodily feature. But also the male rock stars play on there masculinity pursuing an almost dominant character over there audiences with the whole sex drugs rock and roll theme. It would not been seen as appropriate or sexually appealing to see or hear of a female into sex and drugs.  Pushing this aside the whole social structure starts from when you are kids and what is the norm, for example musical instruments. Many kids especially in earlier era's were brought up to play instruments, it was standard for girls to play the piano and boys to play the guitar. In that sense it was almost unheard of for females to be rock artists as there background did not compliment the genre. Now our culture is different and a lot of females play guitar and drums, but most females that play guitar use it for acoustic purposes. It is therefore comprehensible to say from the way we are brought up right to the way that  our gender is to be seen has an effect as to the way music is gendered especially rock music. 

Can popular music ever really be unplugged?

Amplification IS music, music in our current era and decades through to the early 19th century create their music through the idea of amplification. Being brought up around music such as Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson, both huge public figures their music was a huge success due to the editing and amplification that they were able to use. After a creation has been found why then would artist not choose to use it? My personal taste in music is RnB. This music has a lot of base and without the base it would not be half as catchy or unique. Although saying this, many artists do choose to do acoustic versions of their songs. Therefore in my personal opinion, no it can never and will never be unplugged as technology is constantly evolving so why turn back to less technology if you can improve your music with more.

What is 'pop' music?

Pop music to me is music that makes it into the charts, whether that is classical music to RnB it is 'pop' music.  Music which in the words of Robert Burnett is "Commercially Orientated" well know music that has alot of radio air time. Throughout the years the view of 'pop music' has been seen in a variety of ways due to the connotation of the word 'pop'. Only in the 18th century did it start becoming a posotive connotation. Is pop due to beeing accessible? I wouldnt say so, due to so many variations of media technology access to varieties of genre music should not be discriminated as means to be biased to pop music . Music as a whole has become profit orientated, yet pop gets the connotation for money being a primary aim. 'Pop' an abbreviation for popular. Popular music will always be the music prifting in the industry.