Word: musikautomat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mambos, boogie-woogie and other jazz. Teen-agers sit for hours, nursing their beers and feeding schillings to the mechanical monsters. Current hits: Three Coins in the Fountain, Ko Ko Mo and I Love Paris (in the springtime). There are those who deplore the jukebox (which is known as "Musikautomat") as further evidence that civilization is in schrecklich shape. But Vienna's present-day songwriters (not a Strauss among them) are jazzing up older tunes for jukebox use and, in the process, are demonstrating that they can be fairly schrecklich on their own. Current sample...
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