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

[FauxWhiteOrchid]

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?

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!

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

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.

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.

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

@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.

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!

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

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?

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!

Iwasafool · Today 15:37
"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!"

Don't have nightmares! 😉

It was mad but I can't work out if the orange outrage came before or after the purple outrage. They were strange days back then.

I had no idea the word was racist. I always thought it was a reference to the southern states of America. I hadn’t heard about the band changing their name either though.

I love the phrase "recreational indignation"! Thanks, I’ll be using it.

Yep
Boring, old and lots of farts!

No, but it does mean you have to tolerate them and they have to tolerate you and you can't have everything your own way.

This urge to censor, silence and edit the things (and people) one doesn't like really bloody stinks.

There is a chain of supermarkets in the southeastern US called Winn-Dixie. They have hundreds of stores. Maybe someone should be writing to them?

Still better than the avocado bathroom suite...

Elvis sung about Dixieland, as did Joan Baez - 1970’s. I don’t remember anyone getting offended.🙄

OP, why don’t you start your own jazz band and you can call it whatever you like 😊

Did they have Tango in the sixties?!

Always felt like more of an 80s/90s thing to me — somehow more modern than Sunkist, or Nazi Coke substitute Fanta, or orangeade made by companies like Barr.

So I looked it up and — Tango's a fifties brand?? And only just — 1950! Their marketing department did a bloody good job on me, didn't they?

Sunkist though? Not until 1979! But it feels so much older to me… I can so easily picture a fifties-style bottle of Sunkist. And while Fanta is technically older than Tango see previous strikeout apparently the orange flavour of Fanta didn't come out until 1966. But Orangina is apparently way earlier, going back to the 1930s (but as a kid in the 90s, I only ever saw it in France). Generic orangeade presumably older, with the 19th century fashion for flavoured fizzy waters.

Thank you for provoking a rabbit-hole dive; I enjoyed that

OMG I'd forgotten than one. Now I resisted the orange, stayed away from the purple but I did want an avacado bathroom suite. Poverty saved me from that one.

I honestly feel like we had Sunkist as kids in the 50s. Don't know how I've got that one so wrong.

And the teaser ads 'the future's bright, the future's Orange'

or that horrible surgical pink