Significance Today
Music from the Confederacy is not as significant in today's culture.
Songs like "Dixie" are still popular folk songs, but were added to their own collection of music that only the Confederacy supported.
These songs represent a Confederate utopia, destroyed by the Union in the Civil War.
Some Confederate ideas are still shown in today's music.
These songs represent a Confederate utopia, destroyed by the Union in the Civil War.
Some Confederate ideas are still shown in today's music.
- Country songs usually have these ideas.
- Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" is said to be an example of Confederate mythology in southern culture.
- The song, "Southern Man," by Neil Young describes the racism towards black people and the "high status" of the southern man.
- "I saw cotton and I saw black"
- "Tall white mansions and little shacks"
- "I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking"