Dixieland
The Dixieland or Dixie is the nickname which received the territory covered by old the States confederated of America and Slave states remained faithful to the Union (Virginia-Western, Kentucky, and Missouri). This name comes from the old ticket of ten dollars ( dixie ) which circulated then in French Louisiana. These states were located at the south of the Ligne Mason-Dixon which determined the legal limit of the Esclavage.
During the American Civil War, it was the affectionate nickname of the confederated States.
Currently, one indicates under this name the States of the South.
The term Dixieland, or Dixie, also indicates the music Jazz of style New Orleans when she is played by white musicians, according to the model of the black musicians heralds of this kind. New Orleans and Dixieland are thus the black and white face of the same music. In 1917, the irony of fate wants that it is a white orchestra, the Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB), which carries out the first recording of the emblematic music of the blacks of the New-Orleans.