The Men Who Killed Oates

A young rabble-rouser from the south helped change music in the 1950s. He didn’t know it at the time. A small-town radio announcer beams his voice out over the cold Atlantic. His voice ends up in Japan. Oates: adopted son, backroom operative, homewrecker, educator, underground businessman.From the fifties to the 1990s; from the beach at Daytona to muddy European festivals; from scenes and schemes in Nova Scotia to the islands of Japan...There are a lot of people who wouldn’t mind getting rid of Oates.

Duncan Floyd was born and raised in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He has worked and lived in British Columbia, Ontario, Labrador, the USA, Japan, China, and his home province in Canada. He lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia.