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This week Christopher Cook discovers that "Dixie", adopted as the anthem of the segregationist southern states of America, was written by a family of black musicians from Ohio. He recalls how a ship, built on Merseyside during the American Civil War, inspired a song, and remembers the musical director of the American Band of the AEF whose death 50 years ago created a legend.
Producer John Knight

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