Talk:Deejay (Jamaican music)

Deejay
There is a major difference between a DJ (just playing _prerecorded_ music) and a dancehall deejay (who is actually singing/rapping). Until some days ago, I thought Wikipedia distinguishes between the two spellings. So why does this suddenly redirect to a "normal" DJ?--Sid 17:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

There may be a difference in your mind, in your circles, in your idiom, and from your point of reference. I share none of these. Neither does the author of The Radio Station, the text I use for my course and the book most widely used for college Radio Broadcasting courses. Michael C. Keith's original 1986 edition (ISBN 0-240-51747-4 Focal Press/Butterworth Publishers) listed "Deejay" as "Host of radio music program; announcer; 'disk jockey.' " in the Glossary on page 245. The index also refers to album-orient rock on page 42 and middle-of-the-road format on page 46. Keith's 2004 sixth edition (ISBN 0240-80530-5 Focal Press/Elsevier, Inc.) has the same Glossary listing on it's page 346 and makes reference to deejays accompanying a photo (Figure 3.17) on page 113. Keith's seventh edition (2007 Focal Press/Elsevier, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80850-5 ISBN-10: 0-240-80850-9) Glossary is, likewise, the same on page 365 and the index refers the reader to page 117 for the same photo and figure 3.17. Rburtnick 16:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Just heard from my engineering guru that both Michael Keith and I are wrong. Rburtnick 21:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The article that used to be here was merged to Deejay (Jamaican); see the talk page of that article. – Fayenatic L ondon (talk) 22:48, 16 May 2012 (UTC)