Talk:Americana music

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Merger to American folk music?

Oppose: Seems there is a trend here to merge things related to "Folk Music". American roots music has been merged to American folk music, while Roots music was merged into World music. While these terms all overlap and can at times be interchanged I don't think they are all identical. "Americana" for example is fairly well-defined as a radio format that does not usually inclued everything that might be considered American folk music. One is more or less a sub-set of the other. -MrFizyx 21:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Alternative Country?

The article basically says they're the same thing. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.70.143.93 (talk) 08:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I disagree. Americana is more of a catch-all term. It includes bluegrass, and possibly some more urban folk music than what is generally considered alt.country. Of course it would be nice if someone would find sources describing these things and reference them... -128.146.34.232 00:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

american vs citizen of the US

Yes, I know a little clunky, but Argentinians, Panamanians, Mexicans and Canadians are all American, so why say Neil Young is not American? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.63.224 (talk) 01:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I changed it to "not all bands are from the United States." I think that should address your concerns and still read well. Marshall Stax (talk) 12:45, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Dunno how to throw up the "this article does not cite sources" banner, but this article cites no sources. This problem is pandemic across Americana and folk related articles that I've seen - mostly they look like people randomly adding bands they like under the heading. Pretty un-encyclopedic, would be my 2c. --Jordanp (talk) 06:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]