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:
“The roots of the grass strain,
Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting—
And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
—Bill Cosby (b. 1937)