How the Nazis gave us disco

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Fabulous post, like a missing---really good---chapter from GR.

As a sidebar let me note that High Fidelity Sound Recording, as we know it, was invented in Germany during the time the titular residency of Head Of State was occupied by that guy with the funny-looking mustache. There are reel to reel tape recordings, on BASF tape, of Sir Thomas Beecham with, as I recall, the Berlin Philharmonic, from back in the Thirties. During the Forties, Neumann developed the large diaphragm condensor microphone and the two new audio devices, working together, are responsible for raising the bar in sound recording in such a way that it was used by German counterintelligence to broadcast speeches of Hitler in towns hundred of miles away from the Furher himself, fooling US intellegence as regards the man's location.
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From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
How the Nazis gave us disco

(Filed: 12/08/2006)
A French wartime subculture gave rise to the modern DJ, says Frank Broughton .  . . . . 

 . . . .  So while the precise etymology of discothèque has so far defied discovery, we know that the concept of an intimate underground record club is ours thanks to the Third Reich and the jazz-loving layabouts who defied it.


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