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Countless lyrical variants of "Dixie" exist, but the version attributed to Dan Emmett and its variations are the most popular. [4] Emmett's lyrics as they were originally intended reflect the hostile mood of many white Americans in the late 1850s towards increasing abolitionist sentiments in the United States.
Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region. [citation needed]His grandfather, Rev. John Emmett (1759–1847), had been born in Cecil County, Maryland, and after serving as a private in the American Revolutionary War and fighting at the Battle of White Plains in New York and later in Delaware, became a Methodist minister in the then-vast frontier of Augusta County ...
"Dixie" (a.k.a. "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie"), Dan Emmett contested, 1859 [28] "Do Fare You Well Ladies" ... Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro ...
Dixie is a 1943 American biographical film of composer and songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Filmed in Technicolor, Dixie was a box-office hit, and introduced one of Crosby's most popular songs, "Sunday, Monday, or Always". Critical reception to the film was mixed ...
Over the troupe's life, members came and went. In October or November 1858, Dan Emmett joined as a primary songwriter for what would prove the most prolific period of his career. He also performed fiddle, banjo, drum, fife, and vocals. [9] The song "Dixie", usually attributed to him, was first performed on stage by the Bryants during an 1859 ...
Dan Emmett - founding member and Bones (instrument) player, as well as banjo. Most famous for writing the song Dixie. Frank Brower - toured with Dan in the circus, and would commonly accompany him in acts. Mainly a banjo player. Billy Whitlock - would typically practice fiddle with Dan before he started the troupe. Was a large success in New ...
I'm Going Home to Dixie" is an American walkaround, a type of dance song. It was written by Dan Emmett in 1861 as a sequel to the immensely popular walkaround " Dixie ". The sheet music was first published that same year by Firth, Pond & Company in an arrangement by C. S. Grafully .
Photograph of Dan Emmett taken from the belongings of Ben and Lew Snowden. Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks propose that the writers of "Dixie" were not Ben and Lew Snowden but their parents, Thomas and Ellen Snowden. The idea also appears in a 1978 genealogy of the Greer family of Ohio, which states that "After the Greers had settled in ...