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Dixie -
1859
If the
Confederacy and its memory
had an
accompanying anthem,
it was
"Dixie."
The song
was played
at
Davis' inauguration in Montgomery, Ala.
and
caught fire in army camps
as the
rallying cry of the Confederacy.
But the
song that powered the Southern cause
was
actually born in the North.
"Dixie
actually was only created in 1859,
as a
minstrel show in Ohio.
People
tend to forget that minstrelsy
was the
most popular art form in the United States:
White
men in blackface, very often from the North,
imagining happy enslaved people and parodying then
at the
same time that they are pretending to be them,"
Ayers
says.
"So it's
a very weird thing for people to have adopted
as a
national anthem of the Confederacy."
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/
649954248/the-anthemic-allure-of-dixie-an-enduring-confederate-monument
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/
649954248/the-anthemic-allure-of-dixie-an-enduring-confederate-monument
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/06/
682608032/how-dixie-became-and-endured-as-an-anthem
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/25/
417154906/dixies-long-journey-from-democratic-stronghold-to-republican-redoubt
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/
the-birth-of-dixie/
song > "Dixie",
also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie", "Dixie's
Land"
by Daniel Decatur Emmett
of Mount Vernon, Ohio (1859)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__kQX12S9YI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBXNwxjU4I
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