Dixie: Note that concern about the term “Dixie” is not an indictment of the South. The issue is that the term, “Dixie”—not the South—has become inextricably associated with racist ideologies, since the days of minstrelsy to the present. “Dixie” evokes a very specific time in the south—a nostalgic romanticizing of the antebellum South with its devastatingly cruel and dehumanizing institution of slavery and the subjugation African Americans endured for over a century afterwards. Details and additional references may be found here.
See individual song links for additional song-specific information and research.Are You From Dixie? - 1915
This song is inadmissible due to references to Dixie, fields of cotton, and plantations in the lyrics. The sheet music cover illustration of a plantation with well-dressed white men in the foreground and Black workers in the background picking cotton, makes clear the nature of the fond memories and expressions of longing. reference
Indiana Andy (A Yankee Doodle Dandy in a Dixieland Band) - circa 1977
Let Me Sing and I'm Happy - 1928
Mardi Gras March - 1959
Medley with this song: Dancin' In the Streets of New Orleans/Mardi Gras March medley
Original Dixieland One-Step - 1917
Swanee -1919
That's a Plenty - 1914/ lyrics added 1949
Idealized old South: during the decades after the civil war, a genre of songs (along with other arts and discourse) emerged in support of the “Lost Cause” mythology, idealizing the antebellum South in order to assuage White Southerners, maintain the antebellum way of life, portray slavery as a benign institution, and roll back the emancipation of the freed. (reference 1 | reference 2)
See individual song links for additional song-specific information and research.Are You From Dixie? - 1915
This song is inadmissible due to references to Dixie, fields of cotton, and plantations in the lyrics. The sheet music cover illustration of a plantation with well-dressed white men in the foreground and Black workers in the background picking cotton, makes clear the nature of the fond memories and expressions of longing. reference
Swanee -1919
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah - 1946