To contact this jazz band and tell them to stop using this word?

Good point. I'm Catholic, my "orange" mother liked nothing more than a orange parade. I used to ask her why as basically they wanted her children's blood but she just said it was her heritage and she loved it. No idea why she married a Catholic when Ian Paisley seemed to be her pin up.

Orange has some bad associations for me and that's not even mentioning that phase in the 60s when everything seemed to be orange, clothes, wallpaper, Tango, make up, everything, Well actually I just mentioned it!

Hi fellow sufferer, people generally don't believe me so it is nice to meet someone who knows the pain of oranges although I'm sorry you suffer as well.

Shall we start a ban oranges campaign?

If you were going to Jazz Festivals 30 years ago you are probably a boring old fart yourself.

Why are you living in a white area, with white people if you look at them with such disdain?

Are you chained there? What sort of person is too weak to leave an area they despise? You must either be as weak as water, as dim as a badger's arse, or as pathetic as a broken umbrella if you live somewhere you pour such scorn on.
No, children, husband, work is not an excuse-pack them all up. people do, they move thousands of miles to get away from an area that they despise.

Or is that you like living there, taking advantage of it, while sneering at it?

I imagine you have very little else going on to make you feel superior and the only way you can get that feeling is by looking down on others and imagining yourself-and yes, it is all in your imagination-to be better.

No, don't tell them anything based on your research of reading a Wiki page. If you do, I hope they print out your email-complete with email address and have it posted on to t shirts.

Get a life!

@Genevieva

I agree with you. The term "Dixie" either relates to the Mason Dixon Line or possibly the French for ten, which is "dix". Dix was used on ten dollar bank notes in Louisiana and they became known as "dixies". The term soon came to mean the South in general. People are divided over which theory is right, but it is almost certain that one of them is.

@NewGreenDuck
Close, but Mark Knopfler is the best guitarist ever

I think you'd be better off minding your own business. I'd assume the band knows more about the music they play and how best to describe and promote it than you do. You'll only make yourself look foolish, imo, if you try to 'educate' them on this matter.

As an aside, I wouldn't use the band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks to inform any decision in my life.

If the OP wishes to be offended then nobody has the right to prevent it.
Everyone should have the right to be offended. This doesn’t give her the right to try to force others to accept her beliefs.

Yeah, a random chicken shop does it so it must be ok. 🙄

And Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, and, as I mentioned above Django Reinhardt. To name but a few. Just edited to say you mentioned Charlie Parker. Sorry!

It doesn’t mean we all have to agree. I don’t find anything offensive about the band labelling themselves Dixieland as it’s descriptive of a genre of jazz. I find the fact that the OP finds it offensive enough to warrant ‘telling’ the band to change the description bizarre and OTT, but she’s entitled to her opinion I suppose.

Case in point - “fag” in Britain 150 years ago, “fag” in Britain now, and “fag” in the US.

My sister's best friend (in the US) is called Dixie. No one thinks anything of it. She's not from the south or any connection to it.

It’s a matter of interpretation. There’s enough racist language to police without wading in on something that isn’t intended to be offensive, but descriptive of a certain established genre of music. Offence, in this case, is in the eye of the beholder. If you look hard enough for something to be offended by, you’ll usually find it.

You're getting all that from people telling her that "Dixieland" is different from Dixie?

Wow...

Why is it your problem?

I'm sure the band would immediately do as you tell them, OP. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

All of you who are spitting venom at OP for objecting to a word which she feels has racist connotations - do you feel this about all language?

Is it, in your eyes, ever appropriate to say a word should not be used because it is racist?

Or is absolutely anything fine, however offensive, because we shouldn't "police language"?

(In my opinion, words are the most powerful thing in all the world, and the most capable of doing harm. If we fail to accept that, and our responsibility to use them kindly and compassionately, we are truly lost, I think......)

Exactly - how would a band playing Dixieland jazz be unaware of this controversy?! They don’t live under a rock.

Nope. I associate it with the big bands of the 1930s and 40s. I associate it with the talents of people like Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday.

My parents were into this kind of jazz in the 1950s. I think they labelled it as 'trad' jazz.

Millions of Americans also have no problem with Donald Trump as their president. Doesn't mean we have to agree.

This.

This. Good post.

I think with some things you have to distinguish between whether offence is intended or not. It’s not the actual meaning of the word ‘Dixieland’ but how it is interpreted and you’re taking offence where none is meant. This type of jazz was developed by black artists. Why would you think they would be offended by a white jazz band using the name as originally intended. I think there’s enough racism going on without going looking for things to fit your interpretation of it.