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Although popular music has been a major force in the world since the nineteenth century, its literature has been slow to develop. As the popularity of dance bands, crooners and jazz artists grew during the 1920s and 1930s with the advent of the radio and gramophone records, writers failed to understand that there was a parallel market for books, magazines and newspapers providing information about the musicians and reviews of their recorded and live work. Only the weeklies, Melody Maker in Britain, which commenced publication in 1927 (only to close in 2000) and Billboard in the USA, gave any coverage...
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