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Is It True What They Sing About Dixie?

Is It True What They Sing About Dixie? ESSAY ...................... by Stephen J. Whitfield Lithuanian-born Al Jolson was reported to have rhymed `Mammy' with `Alabammy' 1,981 times and to have done more for Dixie than Robert E. Lee. From The Singing Fool, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive and Warner Brothers. © 1928. All Rights Reserved. o succeed in the New World, Jewish songwriters adopted a southern strategy. Immigrants or the sons of immigrants, these men found their vocation in the era of the First World War, flourished for a couple of decades, and did not fully surrender their sovereignty over popular taste until shortly before the Vietnam War. To produce America's varied carols did not require rootedness or pedigree, since such artists operated in a latitudinarian and unstable society, marked by kaleidoscopic permutations of ancestry as well as by geographical restlessness. These songwriters attached themselves to the musical culture of the nation by celebrating one region above all. The idea of the South inspired a pool of melody into which just about anyone--black or white, Jew or Gentile--could dip. Why did the South so strongly appeal to the Jewish songsmiths who dominated Tin Pan Alley, and then after a few decades http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Is It True What They Sing About Dixie?

Southern Cultures , Volume 8 (2) – Jan 5, 2002

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ESSAY ...................... by Stephen J. Whitfield Lithuanian-born Al Jolson was reported to have rhymed `Mammy' with `Alabammy' 1,981 times and to have done more for Dixie than Robert E. Lee. From The Singing Fool, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive and Warner Brothers. © 1928. All Rights Reserved. o succeed in the New World, Jewish songwriters adopted a southern strategy. Immigrants or the sons of immigrants, these men found their vocation in the era of the First World War, flourished for a couple of decades, and did not fully surrender their sovereignty over popular taste until shortly before the Vietnam War. To produce America's varied carols did not require rootedness or pedigree, since such artists operated in a latitudinarian and unstable society, marked by kaleidoscopic permutations of ancestry as well as by geographical restlessness. These songwriters attached themselves to the musical culture of the nation by celebrating one region above all. The idea of the South inspired a pool of melody into which just about anyone--black or white, Jew or Gentile--could dip. Why did the South so strongly appeal to the Jewish songsmiths who dominated Tin Pan Alley, and then after a few decades

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Published: Jan 5, 2002

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