Question

Music from the 1980s tends to feature a lot of synthesizers and other electronic equipment. What does this suggest about the era?

(1 point)

Other kinds of instruments were not available in the 1980s.


This was new technology that artists incorporated into their music.


These were common even before this era but not in Western cultures.


Musicians in the 1980s were seeking to reproduce sounds from earlier eras.

Answer 1

This suggests: 2) This was new technology that artists incorporated into their music.

Explanation: The 1980s saw affordable, widely available synthesizers, drum machines, and digital recording gear (plus MIDI), so artists adopted these new tools to create the characteristic sounds of that decade.