jukebox

• n. ジュークボックス

米国南部の黒人スラングjukeから、道端の酒場、バー、箱、オルゴールなどを指す言葉として使われる。コインを入れると歌う、カラオケ?マシンに似たシンプルなジュークボックス。

jukebox

jukebox: [20] The jukebox – a coin-operated record-player – got its name from being played in jukes; and a juke (or juke-house, or jukejoint), in US Black English slang of the middle years of the 20th century, was a roadhouse providing food and drink, music for dancing, and usually the services of prostitutes. The word probably came from the adjective juke or joog, which meant ‘wicked’ or ‘disorderly’ in the Gullah language, a creolized English of South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida; and that in turn may well have originated in some as yet unidentified West African language.

jukebox (n.)

1937, jook organ, from jook joint "roadhouse" (1935), Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida), probably from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory." Said to have originated in central Florida (see "A Note on Juke," Florida Review, vol. VII, no. 3, spring 1938). The spelling with a -u- might represent a deliberate attempt to put distance between the word and its origins.

For a long time the commercial juke trade resisted the name juke box and even tried to raise a big publicity fund to wage a national campaign against it, but "juke box" turned out to be the biggest advertising term that could ever have been invented for the commercial phonograph and spread to the ends of the world during the war as American soldiers went abroad but remembered the juke boxes back home. ["Billboard," Sept. 15, 1945]

1. I learnt to jive there when they got the jukebox .

彼らは自動点唱機を取り付けた後、私はそこでスウィングダンスを習った。

2.The waiters mime to records playing on the jukebox .

給仕たちは、ジュークボックスで再生されるレコードに合わせて口パクをする。

3.My favorite song is on the jukebox .

自動点唱機が私の大好きな歌を流しています。

4.A tango was playing on the jukebox .

点唱機はタンゴダンス曲を流している。

5.A hillbilly love song was on the jukebox .

ジュークボックスは田舎のラブソングレコードを再生している。