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Dixie2 U.S.|ˈdɪksɪ|
[Origin obscure: see Mathews Dict. Amer.]
1. The southern United States; the South. Also Dixie('s) Land, Dixieland.
1859D. D. Emmett Dixie's Land, Away! away! away down South in Dixie. Ibid., In Dixie Lann whar I was bawn in, Arly on one frosty mawnin. 1859N.Y. Herald 4 Apr., [Bryant's Minstrels are giving] Dixie's Land, another new Plantation Festival. 1861G. P. Putnam (title) Before and after the battle; a day and night in ‘Dixie’. 1864W. Pittenger Daring & Suffering 35 That coat..I wore all through Dixie. 1866C. H. Smith Bill Arp 139 I'm a good Union reb, and my battle cry is Dixie and the Union. 1901W. Pittenger Gt. Locom. Chase 101 Now I will succeed, or leave my bones in Dixie. 1903N.Y. Times 10 Dec. 5 Nearly 400 exiles from Dixie Land gathered at the annual dinner of the Southern Society. 1948Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 15 July 1/8 The 20-minute show Dixieland put on..was more liberally sprinkled with rebel yells.
b. The music or words of the song of ‘Dixie’, written by D. D. Emmett in 1859.
1860E. Cowell Diary (1934) 231 The irrepressible ‘Dixie’ predominates, but sentimental ditties are in high favor. 1904Minneapolis Times 23 June 8 The orchestra in a Georgia theatre quieted a panic-stricken crowd by playing ‘Dixie’. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed xxi. 261 From far away floated the strains of ‘Dixie’, crashed out by forty bands.
c. Dixieland: used attrib. or quasi-adj. to designate a type of jazz music originally played in the southern United States, characterized by a strong rhythm of two beats to the bar and collective improvisation. Also ellipt. Hence ˈDixielander, one who plays Dixieland jazz.
[1919Punch 16 Apr. 293/1 ‘The Original Dixie Land Jazz Band has arrived in London,’ says an evening paper.] 1927Melody Maker June 553/1 A dance band..need not be merely the type of ‘Dixieland’ jazz band. 1934S. R. Nelson All about Jazz i. 25 The Dixielanders are not so démodé as one would think. Ibid. vi. 141 ‘The Jazz Band’ was a ‘Dixieland’ combination playing modernized ‘Dixieland’ style. 1937Étude Dec. 835/1 Dixieland, the original, New Orleans jazz as developed by the famous ‘Dixieland Five’. 1939W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music 210 Dorsey plays a strong bass-part foundation in the style known as ‘Dixieland’. 1946Amer. Jazz No. 1. 13/1 The results are probably nearer to the earliest Dixieland (containing a coloured element) than anything waxed in recent years. 1950A. Lomax Mr. Jelly Roll (1955) iii. 126 The all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band of 1917 (by chance the first band to record jazz) is generally reckoned the originator of ‘Dixieland’. Ibid. iv. 179 The white New Orleans Dixielanders. 1970Melody Maker 12 Sept. 35/7, I strongly suspect it will still be possible, somewhere or other, to listen to live Dixieland in 1999.
2. (See quot. 18732.) Also attrib.
1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxx. 660 ‘Dixie wine’ as the Mormons call it, is rather strong and pungent. Ibid. 661 All that part of Mormondom south of the rim of the Great Basin is called Dixie, and extends some distance into Arizona. 1894Irrigation Age Jan. 38/1 The famous ‘Dixie Land’, comprising the counties of Millard, Washington and Beaver. 1942W. Stegner Mormon Country 345 Dixie sleeps peacefully all winter with hardly a Gentile intruder. |