[93], As an instrumental piece, "Dixie" sometimes signifies simply "Southern United States".[94].
Sacks and Sacks, p. 212 note 4, call $300 "a sum even then considered small"; Abel, p. 31, says that it was "a sizable amount of money in those days, especially for a song." [39] Despite the disputed authorship, Firth, Pond & Co. paid Emmett $300 for all rights to "Dixie" on February 11, 1861, perhaps fearing complications spurred by the impending Civil War.[48]. I took my pen and in ten minutes had written the first verses with music. New versions appeared at this time that more explicitly tied the song to the events of the Civil War. The chorus changed to: I wish I was in Canaan "Dixie" had become Emmett's most enduring legacy. Branham, Robert James, and Stephen J. Hartnett (2002). "[92] Other supporters, such as former State Senator Glenn McConnell of South Carolina, have called the attempts to suppress the song cultural genocide.
"Something New about Dixie.". Dixie Land! lest worse than death befall you! The song added a new term to the American lexicon: "Whistling 'Dixie'" is a slang expression meaning "[engaging] in unrealistically rosy fantasizing. "Songs of the South: The Changing Image of the South in Country Music". "Discography of American Historical Recordings", "Is Jesse Helms Whistling 'Dixie' Over Nomination? As with other minstrel material, "Dixie" entered common circulation among blackface performers, and many of them added their own verses or altered the song in other ways. For example, Chief Justice William Rehnquist regularly included "Dixie" in his annual sing-along for the 4th Circuit Judicial Conference in Virginia. "Lincoln in Hell: Class and Confederate Symbols in the American South". "[45] Emmett himself said, "Show people generally, if not always, have the chance to hear every local song as they pass through the different sections of [the] country, and particularly so with minstrel companies, who are always on the look out for songs and sayings that will answer their business. The melody of the chorus emulates natural inflections of the voice (particularly on the word "away"), and may account for some of the song's popularity. [65], Southerners who shunned the song's low origins and comedic nature changed the lyrics, usually to focus on Southern pride and the war. Introduction to sheet music for "I'm Going Home to Dixie." Union troops who were dead-set on killing Confederates, eventually came up with some new lyrics for the song. The song presented the point of view, common to minstrelsy at the time, that slavery was overall a positive institution. Can lib an die in cloaber Send them back your fierce defiance! This Confederate verse by Albert Pike is representative: Southrons!
Union Dixie was one such parody. Sacks and Sacks argue that such apparently innocent associations only further serve to tie "Dixie" to its blackface origins, as these comedic programs are, like the minstrel show, "inelegant, parodic [and] dialect-ridden. Our Union shall not sever![25]. It is one of the most distinctively Southern musical products of the 19th century[1] and probably the best-known song to have come out of blackface minstrelsy. The song likely cemented the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a nickname for the Southern U.S. "[21] The final stanza rewords portions of Emmett's own "De Wild Goose-Nation": "De tarapin he thot it was time for to trabble / He screw aron his tail and begin to scratch grabble. [18] In short, "Dixie" made the case, more strongly than any previous minstrel tune had, that slaves belonged in bondage. [98] Bob Dylan also recorded a version of the song for the 2003 film Masked and Anonymous. Dixie Land, Now here’s a health to the next old MissusAnd all the gals that want to kiss usLook away! Neely-Chandler, Thomasina, quoted in Johnston. It was a runaway success, and the Bryants quickly made it their standard closing number.
Often these discussed the banalities of camp life: "Pork and cabbage in the pot, / It goes in cold and comes out hot," or, "Vinegar put right on red beet, / It makes them always fit to eat." [34], Other details emerge in later accounts. Galbreath, Charles Burleigh (October 1904). Union boys will win the battles, Hear Fort Moultrie's cannon rattle! [102] Confederate heritage websites regularly feature the song,[103] and Confederate heritage groups routinely sing "Dixie" at their gatherings. When the minstrel denied authorship, Werlein changed the credit to W. H. Peters. Dixie Land. [57] Nevertheless, the refrain "In Dixie Land I'll took my stand / To lib an die in Dixie", coupled with the first verse and its sanguine picture of the South, hit a chord. This position was amplified when white opponents to civil rights began answering songs such as "We Shall Overcome" with the unofficial Confederate anthem. [58] Woods's New Orleans audience demanded no fewer than seven encores. Hurrah! [97], Performers who choose to sing "Dixie" today usually remove the black dialect and combine the song with other pieces. In 1989, three black Georgia senators walked out when the Miss Georgia Sweet Potato Queen sang "Dixie" in the Georgia chamber. As a definite geographic location within the United States, "Dixie" is usually defined as the eleven Southern states that seceded in late 1860 and early 1861 to form the new Confederate States of America. Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. While it used Emmett's music, the author of the lyrics is anonymous. [60] In a New York musical publishers' convention, Firth, Pond & Co. succeeded in convincing those present that Emmett was the composer.
In 1905 the United Daughters of the Confederacy mounted a campaign to acknowledge an official Southern version of the song (one that would purge it forever of its African American associations). Then we'll all go down to Dixie, [13] The chorus follows portions of "Johnny Roach," an Emmett piece from earlier in 1859. While many of Maryland's representatives were arrested to prevent secession… ", "Masked and Anonymous - Bob Dylan - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic", 'Dixie': Dan Emmett its Author and New York the Place of Its Production, Dixie' now too symbolic of old South, not of origins, No love for 'Dixie': Chancellor pulls band pregame piece after chanting continues, Rehnquist's Inclusion of 'Dixie' Strikes a Sour Note, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dixie_(song)&oldid=984401055, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2019, Articles with dead external links from December 2016, Articles with permanently dead external links, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Postscript to the poem "War." [99], Some consider the song a part of the patriotic American repertoire on a par with "America the Beautiful" and "Yankee Doodle." [63] Emmett himself reportedly told a fellow minstrel that year that "If I had known to what use they were going to put my song, I will be damned if I'd have written it."[64]. [89] Confederate heritage groups and literature proliferated in the late 1980s and early 1990s in response to criticism of the song.
By the end of 1860, secessionists had adopted it as theirs; on December 20 the band played "Dixie" after each vote for secession at St. Andrew's Hall in Charleston, South Carolina. [12], According to musicologist Hans Nathan, "Dixie" resembles other material that Dan Emmett wrote for Bryant's Minstrels, and in writing it, the composer drew on a number of earlier works. That he must mind his Uncle Sam.[26].
Hooray!In Dixie land I’ll take my standTo live and die in DixieAway, away, away down south in DixieAway, away, away down south in Dixie, verses:Oh, I wish I was in the land of cottonOld times there are not forgottenLook away! Quoted in Sacks and Sacks 156. In the 1900 census of Knox County, Emmett's occupation is given as "author of Dixie. "[54] Buckley's Serenaders performed the song in London in late 1860, and by the end of the decade, it had found its way into the repertoire of British sailors. [19] This was accomplished through the song's protagonist, who, in comic black dialect, implies that despite his freedom, he is homesick for the plantation of his birth.[20]. Right away, come away, right away, come away. [51] The walkaround was billed as a "plantation song and dance. Compare Frances J. Crosby's Union lyrics: On! ), "Dixieland" was a farm on Long Island, New York, owned by a man named John Dixie. Dixie is as lively and popular an air today as it ever was, and its reputation is not confined to the American continent ... [W]herever it is played by a big, strong band the auditors cannot help keeping time to the music. These variants standardized the spelling and made the song more militant, replacing the slave scenario with specific references to the conflict or to Northern or Southern pride. [24] The defiant "In Dixie Land I'll take my stand / To live and die in Dixie" were the only lines used with any consistency. It is the point of view of one Virgil Caine, poor Confederate farmer, who watched his whole world laid to ruins.
[77] Although they obtained the support of the United Confederate Veterans and the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, Emmett's death the year before turned sentiments against the project, and the groups were ultimately unsuccessful in having any of the 22 entries universally adopted. (1992). I had heard that our adversaries over the way had attempted to appropriate it.
Hobbs," New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1860, and New Orleans: P.P. Look away!Look away! hooray! Both Union and Confederate composers produced war versions of the song during the American Civil War. It appeared second to last on the bill, perhaps an indication of the Bryants' lack of faith that the song could carry the minstrel show's entire finale. "Three Months in the Confederate Army: The Tune of Dixie.". Abel 46. Nathan 245 states that the date of first performance is often given incorrectly. [39] A Washington Post article supports this, giving a composition date of 1843. Look away!Look away! July 1, 1904. [citation needed][5][6][7], "Dixie" is structured into five two-measure groups of alternating verses and refrains, following an AABC pattern.
Like a group of murderous Weird Al fans, the Northerners wanted to poke fun at their deadly enemy in the best way they knew how – a diss track. "Dixie" slowly re-entered Northern repertoires, mostly in private performances.
The lyrics use many common phrases found in minstrel tunes of the day—"I wish I was in ..." dates to at least "Clare de Kitchen" (early 1830s), and "Away down south in ..." appears in many more songs, including Emmett's "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain" (1843).
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