Talk:Dixieland
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This text was moved from Dixieland music, and needs to be incorporated (most of it is already in the article:
"Dixieland" is often concidered the first true type of Jazz, and was the first music refered to by the term jazz (before 1917 often spelled "jass"). The style combined earlier Ragtime and Blues with collective improvisation.
This jazz style developed in New Orleans early in the 20th century, and was first spread by New Orleans musicians to Chicago and New York in the mid 1910s.
Some musicians and music historians prefer the terms "Classic Jazz" or "Traditional Jazz" to "Dixieland".
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Done. I wrote the above to fill in a pre-existing link to "Dixieland_Music". I've incorporated that (with some other additions) ind "Dixieland".
is the origin of the name "dixieland" known?
- Sure, "In Dixie Land I'll take my stand, to live and Die in Dixie!" From the great old song that is now hardly ever heard (for reasons I sympathize with, but I *love* that song). And the name of the music came from the Original Dixieland Jass Band. What isn't known is the origin of the word Dixie. Two most prominent theories are the Mason-Dixon line separating north from south and the Dix on the French 10-dollar coins from New Orleans. That Georgia Peach, Ortolan88