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:
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe.—Without music life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)