Discoteque

Japanese: discoteque
Discoteque

...However, since the late 1970s, the term has come to be widely used to refer to rock or soul dance (disco dance) and music made for dancing (disco music, disco sound). This comes from the fact that in the 1960s in France, dance halls that used records instead of dance bands were called "discotheques." This gradually spread to the United States in the 1970s, and was shortened to "disco."

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "discoteque" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…しかし1970年代後半から,ロックないしソウル系のダンス(ディスコ・ダンス),およびダンス向きに作られた音楽(ディスコ・ミュージック,ディスコ・サウンド)を指す言葉として広く使われるようになった。これは,1960年代にフランスで,ダンス・バンドの代りにレコードを使用するダンスホールを〈ディスコテークdiscoteque〉と呼んだことからきている。それが70年代にかけてしだいにアメリカでも行われるようになり,省略して〈ディスコ〉と呼んだもの。…

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