Dixie's Land

Call number: Mss2 Em645 a 1

"Dixie's Land," handwritten copy by Ohio composer Daniel Emmett (1815–1904), who composed it as a "hooray" song for a minstrel show. He wrote it in New York City while thinking "I wish I was in Dixie." It took the South by storm after its southern debut in New Orleans in 1861 in the play Pocahontas.

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