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It wasn't. So-called Dixieland jazz is a journalist coined tag given to bands that play in the in the style of the early, black New Orleans bands but the name derives from the first white jazz band to record which was the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Hence the term is usually, though not exclusively, applied to white bands that play in that style. However, in Europe, bands who play in this style are referred to as revivalist bands. "Dixieland" is pretty much an American term.

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