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Following the birth of [[Rock music|rock]] in the 1960s, some rock bands began to experiment with acoustic songs. This would be known as '''acoustic rock''', and many well-known artists such as [[Eric Clapton]] and [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] performed acoustic versions of their well-known songs in the early 1990s, which were collected on the [[MTV Unplugged]] series.
[[Pop music|Pop]] music artists have also experimented with acoustic music as well, with this variant sometimes being called '''acoustic pop'''. Like acoustic rock, some acoustic pop songs have also made their way to MTV Unplugged as well. Some notable acoustic pop songs include [[True (Ryan Cabrera song)|True]] by [[Ryan Cabrera]] and [[Exile (song)|Exile]] by [[Taylor Swift]] featuring [[Bon Iver]].
By the 2000s, popular indie musicians began to identify their genre as "contemporary acoustic", in opposition to being classified as "folk music". Daniel Trilling wrote, "Folk is a word that strikes fear into the hearts of many aspiring pop musicians. Not only does it conjure up images of the terminally naff — woolly jumpers, beards, and so on — but it is also the journalist's catch-all term for legions of singer-songwriters too bland to merit a better definition."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Trilling |first1=Daniel |title=That naughty "f" word: these days "contemporary acoustic music" is all the rage--just don't call it folk, writes Daniel Trilling |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=159&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=4&docId=GALE%7CA158725661&docType=Article&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZNEW-FullText&prodId=STND&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA158725661&searchId=R1&userGroupName=nysl_ce_ocpl&inPS=true |access-date=27 July 2021 |issue=4826 |publisher=New Statesman |date=January 8, 2007}}</ref>
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