does anyone know where the jukebox first got its name from?

Answer 1

Well, as per Wikipedia:

The term "juke box" came into use in the 1930s, either derived from African-American slang "jook" meaning "dance", or being a name given to it by critics who said it would encourage criminal behavior, this came from the fake family name Juke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukebox

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Collectors and amateur historians have often been asked, why the object of their hobby is called a jukebox. In other words; where did the word jukebox come from? There have of course over the years been several suggestions as to the origin of the term, but no one really knows for a fact where the strange word jukebox came from in the first place.
History 1888-1913
The first steps to make the modern electrically amplified multi-selection phonographs possible were taken in the late 1880's in London by Charles Adams-Randall (1888) and especially in San Francisco by Louis Glass and William S. Arnold (1889). The coin-op automatic phonographs, known today as jukeboxes, have over the years turned out to be among the most hard to kill cultural phenomena..The very early European and American history of the phonograph is still not quite elucidated, as new information concerning the pioneers Léon Scott de Martinville, Charles Cros, Thomas Alva Edison, and especially Frank Lambert, has been found recently. However, the first important name connected to the cylinder phonographs was ***Thomas Alva Edison****, who applied for a patent for a "Phonograph or Speaking Machine" in 1877. That particular invention became the basis of the first American automatic music machines with coin slots called 'nickel-in-the-slot machines'. The concept of inserting a coin in order to listen to music from an automatic or semiautomatic cylinder or disc playing machine forms the actual basis of the term 'jukebox'.The official birthday of the jukebox is the 23rd November, 1889. The day of the first public demonstration of a coin-op phonograph in the Palais Royal restaurant, 303 Sutter Street in San Francisco. The operator was Louis Glass,to demonstrate the nickel-in-the-slot machine in the restaurant. Today Louis Glass alone is often regarded as the inventor of the jukebox concept. The fact that there is very little information available today is quite easy to understand, as the Earthquake of the 18th April, 1906, levelled the area around Sutter Street and Pine Street in the center of San Francisco. After that the only reliable record of a saloon or restaurant on the spot can be found in the City Directory of 1890 in Brooklyn, New York.The jukebox has always been considered a typical American phenomenon even though it has become popular in other parts of the world, mainly after World War II.

Answer 4

"Juke" is from an African word. I believe a television program (Reading Rainbow??? not sure) I watched told a history of the jukebox. It said that because a majority of the more popular jukebox sings were sung by African Americans, the term "jukebox" was coined meaning "crazy/possessed" box.

Answer 5

"Juke" is an obsolete name for a roadside restaurant or bar, that featured music, dancing and often prostitution. The word is from the southern US where the term "JUKE" was used in the 1800's to denote something that wasn't quite on the level, a little shady. Possibly a corruption of the words "JUNK" or "JOKE"

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Answer 7

some say from the scottish word for duck ; to dodge or an elusive movement.etymology not certain.
juke was also slang for to dance,so a juke joint was a place to go and dance.
i believe it is from a french word originally,with a similar meaning to moving about.

Answer 8

either derived from African-American slang "jook" meaning "dance", or being a name given to it by critics who said it would encourage criminal behavior, this came from the fake family name Juke. "(does anyone hear know how to use a search engine?)

Answer 9

JUKE is indeed slang for 'dance' Hence 'Juke Joint' which means 'dance place'.

eg. What are you doing Saturday night? Oh I'm going to the Juke Joint.

Answer 10

i dont know what juke means but box refers to the fact that the records were played in a kind of self contained box