"Entirely sonic, the Sims piece is based on a single familiar song, 'Dixie,' composed for pre-Civil War minstrel shows and meant to mock clichés of 'happy' Black slave life. (It’s possible that its lyricists were Black.) Later, with altered verses, it became the national anthem of the Confederacy, and then the canonical expression of Lost Cause nostalgia in the Jim Crow era. Sims doesn’t rewrite the song; he simply records it being performed by Black musicians in a range of Black music styles — gospel, blues, soul, hip-hop — undercutting, through genius appropriation, its white supremacist punch."

The New York Times — Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in 'The Dirty South'