Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 - Between "the Virgin Forest and Modernism" : Techno-Primitive Hybrids in the Work of André Schaeffner and Robert Goffin -- 2 - Armstrong's "Bitter Laughter" : Jazz, Gender, and Racial Politics in Léon-Gontran Damas's Pigments (1937) -- 3 - Jazz as Antidote to the Machine Age: From Hugues Panassié to Léopold Sédar Senghor -- 4 - "And What If Jazz Were French . . . ?" : Postcolonial Melancholy and Myths of French Louisiana in Vichy-Era France -- 5 - "Marvellous" Ellington: René Ménil, Jazz, Surrealism, and Creole Identity in Wartime Martinique -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.