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Americana (also known as American roots music) [1] is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States of America, with particular emphasis on music historically developed in the American South.
Merriam-Webster defines Americana music as “a genre of American music having roots in early folk and country music.” The panorama of these roots is wide, taking in country and western,...
When people think of Americana music, the best examples of the top Americana bands includes The Band (who strangely enough aren't even American), Bob Dylan, The Avett Brothers, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, The Civil Wars and Son Volt.
The Americana Music Association is a not-for-profit trade organization advocating for American Roots Music globally, and supporting professionals within the field. The Americana Music Association was founded in order to advocate and provide a network for Americana artists and industry professionals. [1] .
Americana music, a genre or style of American music; Americana (culture), artifacts of the culture of the United States
Americana is at a crossroads. As night fell at the 22nd edition of Bristol, Tennessee's Rhythm and Roots Reunion Festival, Allison Russell – a French Canadian woman, a champion of the queer...
Americana is roots music – an amalgam of country, folk, the blues and even some rockabilly thrown in for good measure. It was in the 1990s that American radio first picked up on the idea of...
In the 1990s, radio programmers coined a new, related usage: "Americana" became a nickname for the weather-beaten, rural-sounding music that bands like Whiskeytown and Uncle Tupelo were making.
The history of Americana music includes American folk music, which originated from folk traditions of England, Scotland, and Ireland and spread across the country with white settlement expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Once a niche genre, Americana music found a wider audience in the last decade with artists like the Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, and the Avett Brothers. The Grammys’ Americana Category Is Often...