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:

    “People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    “A woman drew her long black hair out tight
    And fiddled whisper music on those strings
    And bats with baby faces in the violet light
    Whistled, and beat their wings
    And crawled head downward down a blackened wall....”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)