Which one of the following is not an aspect of “roots music”?

A. American vernacular and ethnic musics
B. urbane, commercial, self-conscious artists
C. themes about gender and class relationships
D. illiterate, untrained artists in rural farm villages


ANS: D. illiterate, untrained artists in rural farm villages

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