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{{Image|Diskjockey.jpg|right|280px|A disk jockey}}

'''Disk jockey''' is a term for a variety of performers who make use of pre-recorded music (originally on disk-shaped media such as [[phonograph record|phonograph records]] or [[compact disc|compact discs]]) for entertainment.  The entertainment can be live, or broadcast over the [[radio]], and the role of the Disk jockey can be actively creative (as with [[Hip-hop]] DJ's, who scratch and mix the pre-recorded material with a high degree of improvisation and dexterity), or relatively passive, as with a wedding Disk jockey who simply plays the requested music, with occasional pauses for announcements.  The abbreviation "DJ," pronounced ''deejay'', evolved early on for this term; in Hip-hop, performers prefixed these initials to their stage names (e.g. DJ Jazzy Jeff, or Kool DJ Herc).