The dance band era: The dancing decades from ragtime to swing, 1910-1950

Dancing decades from ragtime to swing : 1910-1950 176 pages + illustrations Contents: -The Formative Years -The United States, -TheTwenties -Britain, the Twenties -The United States -The Thirties -Britain, the Thirties -The Swing Era -European Dance Music -The War Years and the Aftermath -The business of Dance Music Albert McCarthy (1920 - 3 November 1987 London) was an English jazz and blues discographer, critic, historian, and editor. McCarthy began listening to jazz in his teens, and edited publications of the Jazz Sociological Society in the 1940s. He edited the journal Jazz Forum until publication ceased in 1947. McCarthy, along with Dave Carey (de) (1914-1999) and Ralph Venables, attempted to catalogue all jazz artists in alphabetical order in the publication Jazz Directory. The first volume was published in 1949, and after several subsequent volumes, the editors found that so much had happened in the intervening years that they needed to revise the volumes already in print before continuing. Because of the size of this task, McCarthy's discography was never complete, though he worked on it for over 20 years. In 1971 he wrote "The Dance Band Era The Dancing Decades from Ragtime to Swing 1910-1950" McCarthy edited Jazz Monthly magazine (later Jazz and Blues) from 1955 to 1972, then started his own magazine, Mainstream, later in the decade. McCarthy also did some work as a record producer for Black Lion, Atlantic, and RCA.