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

I'm sure if we tracked the derivation of many words they would refer to things that would now be considered unacceptable but languages, like attitudes, are constantly evolving. Just because a word meant one thing 20 or 100 or 500 years ago doesn't mean it means the same thing now. It won't even mean the same thing in two different countries or even two different areas of the same country.

You can't erase history from language.

It’s a style of jazz, based on the name of a geographical area. You’re being over-sensitive.

If you think the band might be unaware of the derivation of the name or the fact that it might upset some people you could write to inform them of the facts, but asking them to change their name is just being a busybody and would put their backs up.

Guarantee the op is white and is pretty clueless.

Unfortunately there's nothing much you can infer from that number, because the YABU votes aren't going to mean just one thing. Maybe some are about the acceptability of the word Dixieland, or about when it's okay or not okay to challenge language use. Personally, I voted YABU purely because you asked if YWBU to tell someone not to use a particular word.

If you'd asked if YWBU to "let them know I found it upsetting" or "contact them about the history and connotations of the word" or even "ask them to consider changing it", I'd have maybe not bothered reading the thread, or read and not voted, or voted YANBU. And of course you can always make your own judgements on people based on the language they use, and make choices based on those judgements, so if you'd said "AIBU not to go to a concert that's advertised like this", that's your prerogative.

I'd generally be okay with "telling" if it were something more personal to you, like a psychologist describing you in a letter as "queer" when you dislike that term, or an acquaintance repeatedly referring to you as black when they know you refer to yourself as mixed-race. Or, if you control a particular platform, you can tell people what language they can use on that platform, obviously.

But generally, acting like you have the right to tell random people or groups what words you'll permit them to use would BU, IMO. I voted based on that, so, yeah, maybe not so "interesting"

I've read the wiki article, and I'm trying my best to be offended, but actually I've no idea what this is about or why OP is in a flap about it.

Are you actually offended OP, or are you taking offence on behalf of others, you know, people who are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves what they find offensive or not, without some bloody virtue signaller telling them?

So you're asking them to stop describing their music?

YABVU and I hope they tell you to get fucked. Stop tying to police other people’s language.

Who is this band to you? If it’s a friend asking advice then mention it. If this is just some band appearing at the local pub next week, then it’s nothing to do with you.

I don’t. It must be seriously dull to perpetually be in faux outrage at every thing in the world.

The OP seriously needs to get a life; get hobbies, read more, get some exercise and not pickle in their own bile.

I don’t know the song, but it would have been using a pre-existing word with wider application. It’s also two words with an apostrophe S in the middle, so not even the same word the band is using. I think it’s ever so important to guard against manufacturing over-sensitivity and reserve the banning of words for genuinely offensive terms that are used to denigrate others.

I agree, ban oranges, the give me migraines as well

Just want to show my appreciation for the term 'recreational indignation'!

I’m sitting on the fence a bit but I think this PP has a point.

I voted yabu because you don't have the right to 'tell' anyone to do anything.

You can ask them, you can explain why. But if you 'tell' them what to do, you deserve to be ignored. Your arrogance is on show.

And for the record, Dixieland to me is a style of jazz and I think you're being absurd.

I envy your life OP.

I had a pony called Dixie.
My friend who loves jazz has a Jack Russell called Dixie.
Dixieland is positive to me.

Just because many people with darker skin were immensely skilled at Dixieland Jazz doesn't make the term racist.
People of all skin colours played it.
Dixie originated when dollar notes in Southern states under French influence had dix written on them.
I would be proud to have forebears who made history playing Dixieland Jazz. It is known all over the World.

I can't find anything negative written about it.

Do you object to gypsy jazz? If not, why not? If you do please explain.

Levon Helm's vocals-outstanding!

What's an alternative way to describe that style of plinky plonk annoying noise?

This is hilarious

Try not to panic @Flumpie59

In which case it’s not offensive. Virtue signalling at its finest.

Do what you want, love, but if you're going to campaign that the show that contains the greatest hunk of 'em all-namely The Walking Dead and Daryl Dixon - be taken off the air because of your daft ideas I won't be happy.

Oh yeah, you are being very, very, very, unreasonable.

Why stop there, though? Isn't there are shop called Dixons? Perhaps you can protest outside it?

But it's not their band name - it's a word used to describe a sub-type of jazz music

YABU words can have more than one meaning. Mind your own business.