Roots Music

Roots music can refer to several styles or trends in music:

  • Folk music
  • American folk music.
  • Americana (music)
  • Roots reggae
  • Roots revival, a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors
  • Traditional music, music transmitted as part of an oral culture
  • World music

Famous quotes containing the words roots and/or music:

    “A good word is as a good tree—
    its roots are firm,
    and its branches are in heaven;
    it gives its produce every season
    by the leave of its Lord.”
    —Qur’An. Abraham 14:29-30, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    “When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)