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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Dixie (REFERENCES)
Date: 21 Oct 1993 23:30:31 GMT

In response to the question about the authorship of the song "Dixie", the _Encyclopedia of Southern Culture_ (University of N.C. Press, 1989) states that it was written by a white Ohioan, Daniel D. Emmett, in 1859, for a minstrel show. (These were music-and-"comedy" performances in which white actors portrayed stereotyped black characters.)

The Encyclopedia refers us further to an article by John A. Simpson in a 1981 issue of the Southern Folklore Quarterly, and to the book _Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy_ by Hans Nathan, 2nd edition, 1977.

Is this the first citation of a scholarly folklore journal on AFU during the Nineties?

Bruce "Wittgenstein, y'all" Tindall


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