Chapter 12: Walk On the Wild Side – Jews, Gangsters, and Rock ‘n’ Roll

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Prologue 1
4. Chapter 1: Jokerman – The Black Mask of Al Jolson 21
5. Chapter 2: Somewhere over the Rainbow – Jewish Immigration to America and the Struggle for Popular Culture 33
6. Chapter 3: I Used to Be Color-Blind – Irving Berlin, the Ragtime Riot and the Jewish Network in Tin Pan Alley 62
7. Chapter 4: Someone to Watch Over Me – Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and the Jazz Journey in the Musical Comedy 75
8. Chapter 5: It Don’t Mean a Thing If you Ain’t Got That Swing – Duke Ellington and Irving Mills’ Fantasy 98
9. Chapter 6: Heaven With You – Jews, The Record Industry and Rock ‘n’ Roll 113
10. Chapter 7: Stand By Me – The Black-Jewish Political Alliance and the Decline of the WASP 128
11. Chapter 8: That is Rock ‘n Roll! Leiber and Stoller, the White Negro and the Enlargement of America 147
12. Chapter 9: Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Carole King, Black Lolitas and the Brill Building’s hit factories 166
13. Chapter 10: River Deep – Mountain High: Phil Spector, Burt Bacharach and the Ghost on the Second Floor of the Bus 182
14. Chapter 11: The Sounds of Silence – Folk, the Blues and the Spirit of Capitalism Between Grossman, Bloomfield and Zimmerman 201
15. Chapter 12: Walk On the Wild Side – Jews, Gangsters, and Rock ‘n’ Roll 221
16. Chapter 13: Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall – Popular Music, Hegemonic Rifts, and New American Culture 240
17. Epilogue 253
18. Bibliography 256
19. Index 265
20. Author information 273