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Riff Riff explores the turbulent life of the Caribbean musician and poet Shake Keane (1927-97). Each of them found expression in his work. A trend-setting but troubled Caribbean icon, he absorbed…
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Riff
Riff explores the turbulent life of the Caribbean musician and poet Shake Keane (1927-97). Each of them found expression in his work. A trend-setting but troubled Caribbean icon, he absorbed many of the themes of the 20th century - colonialism, migration and masculinity.
A return to his birthplace was blighted by politics, and his last decades were spent in self-imposed exile in New York City and Norway. Born in St Vincent, he migrated to London in the early 1950s where he became an important figure in the free form jazz scene. 'This beautiful, evocative biography of Shake Keane explores with equal passion Keane's double life as poet and musician and his innovation as a virtuoso in both art forms.
Nanton brilliantly contextualises Keane's life through the multiple lenses of Caribbean nationalism, post-war migration and the formation of Caribbean literary identity. A