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roots

/ ruːts /

adjective

(of popular music) going back to the origins of a style, esp in being genuine and unpretentious
roots rock

Roots

(1976) A Pulitzer Prize –winning novel by the African-American author Alex Haley, later made into a popular television drama. It traces a black American man's heritage to Africa, where his ancestors had been captured and sold as slaves.

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