Riff: The Shake Keane Story: An Itinerant Caribbean Artist’s Life
28 April 2021, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm

Nationalism, migration and masculinity as social framing devices through which an artist's life can be usefully examined
This event is free.
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- All
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- Sold out
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- Free
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UCL Institute of the Americas
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The life of Shake Keane, the accomplished jazz musician and poet from St Vincent, spanned seventy years of the twentieth century (1927 - 1997). He spent in total 33 years (comprising two periods) in St Vincent and another 37 years out of St Vincent, principally in London, Cologne and New York. What can one learn about the Caribbean from the trajectory of one artist’s life? In my presentation I will argue that nationalism, migration and masculinity are the social framing devices through which Shake Keane’s life as musician and poet can usefully be examined.