Jeremy Lane's "Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism" is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane's book is the first to examine the responses of diasporic French Africans and Antilleans to the music they first heard in Paris in the interwar years, analyzing the place of jazz within the emerging negritude and creolite movements. "Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism" is also the first study of the sometimes symbiotic, sometimes antagonistic relationship between these intellectuals of color and contemporary white jazz...