Lyrics from “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” have been quietly faraway from the set record of Disneyland’s Magic Occurs parade. The melody originates from the 1946 function “Music of the South,” which has been criticized for that includes racist imagery and themes.
Disneyland officers confirmed to the Los Angeles Occasions {that a} lyric from the track was faraway from the soundtrack of the Magic Occurs parade, which is held twice each day on the Anaheim resort. The Magic Occurs parade returned to the park on Feb. 24, ending a three-year hiatus prompted by the Covid pandemic. In accordance with the report, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” has been changed by a track from the 1953 function “Peter Pan.”
Representatives for Disneyland weren’t instantly obtainable for remark.
The change within the parade follows plans to shut the park’s traditional journey Splash Mountain, which was designed with references to “Music of the South.” The attraction will probably be reconfigured to function themes and iconography from the 2009 function “The Princess and the Frog.” Splash Mountain was shuttered at Florida’s Walt Disney World resort in January, although the Anaheim version stays in operation.
Plans to remodel Splash Mountain have been first introduced in June 2020, a time when Black Lives Matter protests gathered throughout the nation to protest the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and extra Black People by the hands of legislation enforcement.
Set within the southern United States in the course of the Reconstruction period, “Music of the South” follows a white boy who befriends an older Black man who works on a plantation. Throughout its launch within the ’40s and throughout subsequent re-releases, the movie drew criticism for its use of racist stereotypes and its ahistorical conception of the plantation system as a harmonious, consensual partnership between white house owners and Black slaves.
Disney CEO Bob Iger has said that “Music of the South” is “simply not applicable in immediately’s world.” The movie has not been launched in any format lately.
