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Americana

Americana

6 7.0
Music that mixes folk, country, and blues with a modern rock sound
  • noun
  • /əˌmɛrɪˈkɑːnə/
: Americana (género musical)
  • Welcome to our fifth installment of New Bedford Streets: A Piece of Americana.
  • Americana music
  • Americana album
  • Americana singer

Examples

  • His music is pure Americana and will be perfect.

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  • Artists like the up-and-coming Americana band The Bailey Hounds know this firsthand.

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  • Later on, the album "Surrender" brings exceptional two-part harmonies over a timeless Americana beat.

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  • Acclaimed Americana duo Birds of Chicago are playing this amazing three-day festival, and we've got your pair of 3-day passes!

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  • Nothing otherwise too surprising here so far—nice mix of Ward's mellower sound and his more rocking Americana roots.

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  • The festival showcased a variety of Americana music, blending folk, country, and blues traditions.

  • He discovered new artists while exploring the Americana genre, which combines elements of rock and traditional sounds.

  • The documentary highlighted the impact of Americana music on contemporary culture and its roots in American history.

Synonyms

rootsy music
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  • Literature
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A kind of music like old folk, country and blues that sounds simple and honest

blends several American genres into a contemporary style focused on acoustic instruments

Compounds

Phytolacca americana
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A tall North American plant with white flowers whose young shoots people cook but whose berries and roots are poisonous

Martes americana
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A small wild animal like a weasel, native to North America with soft brown fur

Corylus americana
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A shrub from eastern North America that produces edible hazelnuts

Apios americana
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A North American vine that climbs and has purple-brown flowers and edible underground roots

Agave americana
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A large spiky plant that blooms once after many years and then dies

Antilocapra americana
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A fast animal with hooves like an antelope that lives on western North American plains and has forked horns

Morone americana
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A small silvery fish from eastern United States rivers called white perch that people eat and catch for sport

Heuchera americana
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A North American plant that grows in clumps with spotted leaves and small flowers on stems

Periplaneta americana
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A large reddish-brown cockroach from the southern United States now found worldwide

Tilia americana
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A large American tree with dark green leaves that gives shade

Brunfelsia americana
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A tropical bush with strong, sweet-smelling yellow-white flowers that open at night

Campanula americana
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A plant with long spikes of blue or white bell-shaped flowers that grows in eastern North America

Centaurea americana
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A plant that lives one year with purple flower heads and basket-like leaves below them

Certhia americana
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A small brown North American bird that climbs tree trunks to find insects

Cimicifuga americana
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A tall plant from the woods of eastern North America with spikes of white flowers

Anas americana
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A medium duck whose male has a white crown and a green patch by the eye

Aythya americana
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A diving duck from North America with a grey and black body and a reddish brown head

Fagus americana
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A North American tree with light green leaves and nuts you can eat

Fulica americana
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A medium-sized water bird in North America with dark feathers and a white bill

Lepiota americana
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A mushroom with a pale cap and a stem thicker at the base

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A disease that causes sores on the skin and on the mouth or nose

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A North American form of the twinflower that is a low creeping plant with two small bell-shaped flowers

Malacosoma americana
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A moth whose caterpillars live together in silk tents in trees

Mammea americana
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A tropical tree with sweet fruit used in jams and desserts

Genipa americana
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A tropical tree from the Caribbean and northern South America that has fruit the size of an orange

Grus americana
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A rare North American crane with white and black feathers and a loud trumpet call called the whooping crane

Mycteria americana
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A large stork with a long curved bill that wades in warm American wetlands

Prunus americana
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A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that has red-orange fruit with yellow inside

Pyrola americana
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9.9

A small forest plant with thick leaves and clusters of white flowers

A small evergreen plant with round thick leaves and white flowers native to eastern North America

A large South American bird like an ostrich that runs fast, cannot fly, and has three toes

Parula americana
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A small North American bird with blue-grey feathers and a yellow throat and chest

Sorbus americana
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A small tree with divided leaves and clusters of bright red berries from eastern North America

Veronica americana
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A low spreading plant with dense light purple flowers that grows near streams in western North America and northeastern Asia

Surface Forms

Americana singular
Americanas plural

Morphology

Americana = America (semi-transparent) = America + ana

Formally 'America' + '-ana' yields 'things relating to America', but the specialized use as a music-genre label requires cultural/genre knowledge beyond simple compositional inference.

Etymology

Americana for music is formed from American and the ending -ana, meaning 'about' or 'connected with'. So Americana music is a mix of American roots like folk, country, and blues that feel true to American traditions.