The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album is an annual music award that will be part of the Grammy ceremony from 2012.
It is a new category in which the previous Best Hawaiian Music Album, Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album and Best Native American Music Album categories have been merged. The change was the result of a major overhaul of Grammy categories, announced in April 2011. [1]
The new category will also recognise other musical forms, such as polka, whose own Grammy category was discontinued in 2009.
According to the Grammy organisation, this category is intended to recognise recordings of regionally based traditional American music, including but not limited to Hawaiian, Native American, polka, zydeco and Cajun music.
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