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:
“Sprung from the West,
He drank the valorous youth of a new world.
The strength of virgin forests braced his mind,
The hush of spacious prairies stilled his soul.
His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts
Were roots that firmly gript the granite truth.”
—Edwin Markham (1852–1940)
“A man in all the world’s new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
One who the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)