Machine generated contents note: 1.Between "the Virgin Forest and Modernism": Techno-Primitive Hybrids in the Work of Andre Schaeffner and Robert Goffin -- 2.Armstrongs "Bitter Laughter": Jazz, Gender, and Racial Politics in Leon-Gontran Damas's Pigments (1937) -- 3.Jazz as Antidote to the Machine Age: From Hugues Panassie to Leopold Sedar Senghor -- 4."And What If Jazz Were French...?" Postcolonial Melancholy and Myths of French Louisiana in Vichy-Era France -- 5."Marvellous" Ellington: Rene Menil, Jazz, Surrealism, and Creole Identity in Wartime Martinique.