The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron first recorded it for his 1970 album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, on which he recited the lyrics, accompanied by congas and bongo drums. The message of the song is the elusive nature of political culture in Nixons America and the inability of the mainstream to capture the real heart of the people. Heron uses cultural refrences from the 1970s to express his angerin the 1970s. What he is trying relay in his poem that In a country where everything was becoming increasingly sanitized and pre-packaged, ”The Revolution will not be televised” is partly a call to arms and partly an acknowledgement that there was an alternative, but that it wouldn’t
If we want to make our society a better one we must learn to think on our own and not be controlled by the consumption of television adds. That’s what we can learn from this poem. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron first recorded it for his 1970 album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, on which he recited the lyrics, accompanied by congas and bongo drums. The message of the song is the elusive nature of political culture in Nixons America and the inability of the mainstream to capture the real heart of the people. Heron uses cultural refrences from the 1970s to express his angerin the 1970s. What he is trying relay in his poem that In a country where everything was becoming increasingly sanitized and pre-packaged, ”The Revolution will not be televised” is partly a call to arms and partly an acknowledgement that there was an alternative, but that it wouldn’t happen if people just stayed at home staring at their TVs. In the poem where Heron takes jabs at political leaders, his central issues are drugs, President Nixon and the vietnam War, and the brain washing of television. Knowing and understanding these issues that happened in our past can help us deal with the same issues we our facing