Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States.

Jun 8, 2017 · Emmett’s ditty is now generally credited with popularizing “Dixie” as a nickname for the southern states, but he never claimed to have coined the word itself. In fact, there are at …

Dixieland, in music, a style of jazz, often ascribed to jazz pioneers in New Orleans, but also descriptive of styles honed by slightly later Chicago-area musicians.

Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans at the start of the twentieth century, and spread to Chicago and New York City in the 1910s.

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The Dixieland sound is created when one instrument (usually the cornet) plays the melody or a recognizable paraphrase or variation on it, and the other instruments of the “front line” …

Dixie, or Dixieland, is a nickname associated with the American South —in particular, the states that left the Union to join the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War in 1861.