4. Gil Scott-Heron – “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (1970)
Gil Scott-Heron, born April 1, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. He was an American soul and jazz poet, musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and the 1980s. He was raced in Tennessee by his mother, his father was from Jamaica, but he was not in his life. He was one of three African-American students to be a part of the first integrated class at his junior high school where he suffered racial discrimination daily. Later he studied at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where he became a campus activist, for the Black Arts Movement. This was a time of unrest and rage in America. His room-mate died in his friends’ arms in the dormitory at Lincoln University from asthma caused by an …show more content…
Later, two tragic national events occurred, the first, on May 4, 1970 at Ken State University in Ohio, the National Guard shot and killed four students, and the second, on May 15th 4 that same year, two black students were shot and killed by members of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol. A few years before these tragedies back at Lincoln the Ku Klux Klan had burned a 30-foot cross near the college. After responding to these events through his poetry/music by releasing, “The Nigger Factory,” “The Vulture,” and “Who Will Pay the Reparation on My Soul.” He was inspired to write and release “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” It is funky-groove and socio-political. It is so catchy and timeless it is referred to in
Gil Scott-Heron, born April 1, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. He was an American soul and jazz poet, musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and the 1980s. He was raced in Tennessee by his mother, his father was from Jamaica, but he was not in his life. He was one of three African-American students to be a part of the first integrated class at his junior high school where he suffered racial discrimination daily. Later he studied at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where he became a campus activist, for the Black Arts Movement. This was a time of unrest and rage in America. His room-mate died in his friends’ arms in the dormitory at Lincoln University from asthma caused by an …show more content…
Later, two tragic national events occurred, the first, on May 4, 1970 at Ken State University in Ohio, the National Guard shot and killed four students, and the second, on May 15th 4 that same year, two black students were shot and killed by members of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol. A few years before these tragedies back at Lincoln the Ku Klux Klan had burned a 30-foot cross near the college. After responding to these events through his poetry/music by releasing, “The Nigger Factory,” “The Vulture,” and “Who Will Pay the Reparation on My Soul.” He was inspired to write and release “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” It is funky-groove and socio-political. It is so catchy and timeless it is referred to in