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| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 07:21 pm EDT 06/14/22 |
| In reply to: "There's rebel in your manner and your speech" was left in - AlanScott 06:20 pm EDT 06/14/22 |
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All really well put.
I don’t think “rebel” carries the same freighted association as the image of a happy, humming plantation - which to me implies the slaves are participating in this joy - and the very loaded word of “Dixie”. I think you’re right that maybe the lyric should be changed, but I can understand why they felt that verse wasn’t so problematic.
And it is true that New Yorkers do see ourselves as a little rebellious, so Jonny Reb didn’t really come to my mind when I first read the lyric. |
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