Disc jockey

Japanese: ディスク・ジョッキー(英語表記)disc jockey
Disc jockey
This refers to radio and television announcers and entertainers who talk while playing music, as well as to such programs. Abbreviated as DJ. A compound word of disc (record) and jockey (jockey), meaning to ride through the sky on a record (music). This format was popular in the United States as a radio program format from early on, but was fully introduced and became common in Japan after World War II, especially with the start of commercial radio broadcasting. Disc jockeys are one of the broadcast programs that symbolize the "democratization and popularization of broadcasting" after the war, and at the same time, they promoted the "individualization of broadcasting," with announcers no longer reading from pre-set scripts but instead speaking freely, and various experiments in the structure of the program began.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ラジオ,テレビで音楽をかけながらおしゃべりをするアナウンサーやタレントおよび,その種の番組をさす。DJと略す。ディスク(レコード)とジョッキー(騎手)の合成語で,レコード(音楽)にのって空を駆けるという意味をもつ。アメリカのラジオ番組の形式として早くから人気を集めていたが,日本では第2次大戦後,とくに民放ラジオの放送開始とともに本格的に導入され,一般化した。ディスク・ジョッキーは,戦後の〈放送の民主化,民衆化〉を象徴する放送番組の一つであると同時に,〈放送の個性化〉を促し,アナウンサーはお仕着せの原稿を読むだけでなく自由に話すようになり,構成上もさまざまな試みがなされるようになった。

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