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Dan Emmett

Dan Emmett
Dan Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)

Daniel Decatur Emmett was an American composer, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition, the Virginia Minstrels. He is most remembered as the composer of the song "Dixie".

29 October 1815

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