The term 'acoustic music' is of course a retronym, with the phrase only entering into common parlance after the advent of power-driven instruments such as the electric guitar, the Hammond organ, the synthesiser and so on. Instruments that all naturally transformed the music scene in their day, although the angry young-man at Manchester's Free Trade Hall, who back in 1966 shouted 'Judas' when folk pioneer Bob Dylan swapped his acoustic guitar for a Stratocaster, evidently had his own strong views on the mat...   [ read more ]

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