Riff: The Shake Keane Story
January 23, 2021
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Riff: The Shake Keane Story Philip Nanton 157 pages ISBN-13 : 978-1999776893 Papillote Press 2021 Except for occasional flare-ups of its La Soufriere volcano, the hilly eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent tends to keep a low profile among the least developed but politically stable nation states of the region.Philip Nanton's pioneering biography, Riff: The Shake Keane Story, chronicles the outstanding but turbulent life of a man whose unique creativity transcended the limiting confines of the island of his birth.Nanton, a poet, writer and former academic at the University of Birmingham and the University of the West Indies, draws on three main themesand#151;Vincentian and broader Caribbean nationalism, migration and masculinityand#151;to flesh out the life of one of the Caribbean's foremost jazz trumpeters and poets.Ellsworth McGranahan Keane was born in Kingstown, St Vincent, on 30th May 1927 into a family possessed with a love for music and education... [ read more ]
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