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

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There’s a local jazz event taking place soon and the bio describes the band as “Dixieland”. I remember the Dixie Chicks apologising and changing their name.

The word derives from the American South and is also used in a Confederate song. Here’s the full Wikipedia page for “Dixie”. Basically, its usage is racist.

I was surprised to see the word at all but also not surprised as I live in a very white Reform/Tory voting area.

AIBU to contact the band and ask them to change their description? Or leave them alone? I know what the reaction will be if I do contact them: just music blah blah been a traditional word for this style of jazz blah blah world gone mad woke blah joy thief etc. But I see no reason to use this word in this day and age.

WWYD?

They know. You don't need to tell them. However as the various sub-genres of Jazz are numerous and distinctive, and there isn't really a widely-recognisable alternative they might think it would be difficult to effectively market themselves if they dropped 'Dixieland'. They could use 'Trad Jazz' but it's not as widely understood by potential clients (weddings, anniversaries, fetes etc).

There is a chain of chicken shops in London called Dixie Chicken. Perhaps you would like to contact them and TELL them to change their name. You bring a whole new level to recreational indignation. HTH.

Well, I admit to my mistake because my user name is what I saw when I chose this name which is my plastic orchid on the windowsill. Wish I’d made my username “DustyCurtains”. But thank you for pointing this out. I’m telling you you’re seeing stuff which isn’t there and you’re telling me that I’m seeing stuff that isn’t there.

I agree with that.

Are you the same poster who ‘saw’ her coconut yoghurt yesterday?

Absolutely not. I wasn’t on Mumsnet yesterday.

You do know that not everything on Wiki is true don't you?

Why create a poll then be surprised when people vote? Why ask if you think you are right?

I think there is danger in a sweeping away of words because they can be used badly.

Years ago the word spastic was used as an insult, so became effectively forbidden. There was a Spastic Society that had to change its name, and it’s a medical term for a specific symptom.
In bread, dough sometimes needs to be retarded. That’s a really hard word to use now- it’s hard to type.

But what matters is the intention of the speaker. It’s not the word. I can make ‘dope’ into an insult or a compliment.

Let words be and tackle attitudes.

A very quick Google reveals the word go be in common usage in America.

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

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

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?

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

This is hilarious

Try not to panic @Flumpie59

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

Levon Helm's vocals-outstanding!

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

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.

I envy your life OP.

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

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

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

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.