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Dixieland

Dixieland

7.0
A lively jazz style from the southern United States where players make up music together
  • noun
  • /ˈdɪksiˌlænd/
translation icon : jazz dixieland
  • The lively music played by the dixieland band kept everyone dancing at the festival.

And he brings up Bunk Johnson Kid Ori and the like, early Dixieland jazz, and Robert Children says no, I'm not interested in that stuff.

Examples

  • First, you've got your dixieland band on a flatbed.

    The Candidate (1972)

  • Do you like dixieland?

    Killing Zoe (1993)

  • You just missed marching band rehearsal, and right now we're working with the dixieland band.

    The Other Sister (1999)

  • - ( playing dixieland ) - I'm serious.

    Little Manhattan (2005)

  • And he brings up Bunk Johnson Kid Ori and the like, early Dixieland jazz, and Robert Children says no, I'm not interested in that stuff.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • (dixieland)

    Julia (1977)

  • Saint Petersburg dixieland," Artyom proudly announced.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Listening to dixieland in the park on a sunny afternoon is always a joyful experience.

  • He loves to play the trumpet in his school's dixieland jazz ensemble.

How Lively

bebop
16 8.2
swing
60 4.8
Dixieland
7.0
to jazz
1 4.2
blues
85 3.4
ballad
  • Literature
62 3.7

Surface Forms

Dixieland singular
Dixielands plural

Morphology

Dixieland = Dixie + land (transparent) = Dixie + land

Genre name formed from the place-name compound 'Dixieland' to mean jazz from that region; derivation is straightforward from the place-name.

Etymology

Dixieland for the music takes its name from the same nickname Dixie for the American South, where this lively jazz began in places like New Orleans. So Dixieland jazz sounds lively and often has players making up music together.