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Definition: Disc Jockey |
Disc JockeyNoun1. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Fine Arts | A person who conducts a radio program of recorded music, interspersed with chatter, jokes, commercial, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Announces radio program of musical selections: Selects phonograph or tape recording to be played based on program specialty, knowledge of audience taste, or listening audience requests. Comments on music and other matters of interest to audience, such as weather, time, or traffic conditions. May interview musical personalities. May interview members of listening audience who telephone musical requests. May specialize in one type of music, such as classical, pop, rock, or country and western. May write entries onto log to provide information on all elements aired during broadcast, such as musical selections and station promotions. May be designated Combination Operator (radio-tv broad.) when operating transmitter or control console. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A disc jockey, (usually called by the initialism "DJ", or "deejay"), is an individual who selects and plays pre-recorded music for the enjoyment of others.
DJs can be heard on the radio or at any number of social gatherings, among them weddings, nightclubs, art openings, warehouse parties, or high school dances. As a result there are many different types of DJ, each fitting into a particular niche defined by performance setting (broadcast booth or nightclub) and intended audience (jazz or hip hop fans). A DJ's performance style and the techniques they employ reflect these considerations. Wedding DJs play music but are often expected to act as a masters of ceremonies who introduce the bride and groom, lead dances, or invite guests to play games. A DJ at a rave would not be expected to do any of these things, but would be expected to introduce a greater technical element to their performance by manipulating the songs they play in order to maintain a given tempo and energy level. It can be said that DJing is not a single action but instead a series of actions whose makeup is predicated upon a number of situational factors and expectations. The examples of talk radio "shock jocks" like Howard Stern and Don Imus show that one need not play music to be considered a DJ by some audiences, though the title "on-air personality" might be more appropriate for them.
Technique
mixing and blending, cueing, phrasing, cutting, beat juggling, scratching, body tricksEquipment
Turntable, CD player, Mixer, Headphones, Slipmat, Sampler, Drum Machine, Effects Processor, Laptop computer The DJ as Artist
A recent phenomenon in the musical community (but primarily within the sphere of popular music) is the assertion that some DJs are not simply "playing records" but are in fact creating new music out of the playback and mixing of the pre-recorded media. Fuelled mainly by the innovative mixing techniques that have come out of the hip hop and EDM scenes, and regarded as a musical extension of the literary cut-up technique, this growing attitude posits that such a DJ is not content simply to beatmatch two or three records and layer them over each other but that the end product should emerge as a new musical composition. To achieve this goal, such a DJ may employ such techniques as phrasing, sampling, scratching, the application of effects (e.g., delay, flange, etc.), and any other technique the DJ feels inclined to use. Examples of such DJs as "artists" adding musical or dramatic value include DJ Shadow, Coldcut and DJ Spooky. In effect they are developing an aural montage that may be spontaneous/improvised or carefully crafted. There are parallels in surrealism and the visual arts.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disc jockey."
Synonyms: Disc JockeySynonyms: disk jockey (n), dj (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Disc Jockey |
| English words defined with "disc jockey": payola. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Pied Piper of Cleveland: A Day in the Life of a Famous Disc Jockey (1955) Disc Jockey (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | New disc jockey -- same old tune. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Language | Translations for "disc jockey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | дисководещ. (various references) | |
Czech | diskžokej. (various references) | |
French | présentateur de disques (disk jockey), animateur (disk jockey). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תקליטן (d.j.). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lemezlovas. (various references) | |
Indonesian | disjoki. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ディスクジョッキー (disk jockey). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iscday ockeyjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | discotecário. (various references) | |
Russian | диск-жокей (dj). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | disk-džokej. (various references) | |
Spanish | disk jockey, jefe de discoteca. (various references) | |
Swedish | disk-jockey, skivpratare. (various references) | |
Turkish | diskjokey (disk jockey, dj). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-i-j-k-o-s-y" | |
-3 letters: codices, dickeys, disyoke, jockeys. | |
-4 letters: cocked, codecs, cosied, decoys, dickey, dickys, dioecy, jockey, sicced, sicked, socked, yocked, yoicks. | |
-5 letters: cedis, cisco, cocky, codec, codes, coeds, coked, cokes, cosec, cosey, cosie, coyed, decks, decos, decoy, dices, dicey, dicks, dicky, dikes, dikey, disco, docks, dykes, eidos, jocks, joeys, joked, jokes, jokey, joyed, secco, sicko, skied. | |
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