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:
“Einstein is not ... merely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)
“The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)