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1971 song performed by Gil Scott-Heron

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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Single by Gil Scott-Heron
from the anthology Pieces of a Man
A-side	"Abode Is Where the Hatred Is"
Released	1971
Recorded	April xix, 1971 RCA Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz-funk[1] spoken word proto-rap
Length	three:07
Label	Flying Dutchman
Songwriter(s)	Gil Scott-Heron
Producer(south)	Bob Thiele
Gil Scott-Heron singles chronology
"The Revolution Will Non Be Televised" (1971) "The Bottle" (1974)
Sound sample
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" file help

"The Revolution Volition Not Exist Televised" is a verse form and vocal by Gil Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron commencement recorded it for his 1970 anthology Modest Talk at 125th and Lenox, on which he recited the lyrics, accompanied by congas and bongo drums. A re-recorded version, with a full ring, was the B-side to Scott-Heron's first unmarried, "Abode Is Where the Hatred Is", from his anthology Pieces of a Human (1971). It was also included on his compilation album, The Revolution Will Non Be Televised (1974). All these releases were issued on the Flight Dutchman Productions record label.

The song's title was originally a pop slogan among the 1960s Black Power movements in the United states of america.^[2] Its lyrics either mention or allude to several television serial, advertising slogans and icons of entertainment and news coverage that serve equally examples of what "the revolution will not" exist or practise. The song is a response to the spoken-word piece "When the Revolution Comes" by The Terminal Poets, from their eponymous debut, which opens with the line "When the revolution comes some of united states will probably catch it on Idiot box".^[3]

Information technology was inducted to the National Recording Registry in 2005.^[four]

Cultural references in the poem [edit]

• "Plug in, turn on, and cop out", a reference to Timothy Leary's pro-LSD phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."^[5]
• "Skag", slang term for heroin^[vi]
• "Pigs", slang term for police^[7]
• "Process", term for using chemicals to straighten a Black person's hair ^[8]
• Xerox, best-known manufacturer (at the time of the poem's writing) of photocopying machines
• Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States
• John Due north. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney Full general under Nixon
• General Creighton Abrams, one of the commanders of military operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
• Mendel Rivers, chairman of the Business firm Armed Services Committee during the menstruum of the Vietnam War (Rivers' proper noun appears in the original 1970 recording, but not in the re-recorded 1971 version, being replaced by Spiro Agnew)
• Spiro Agnew, 39th vice president of the United States nether Nixon
• "Hog maws", sometimes misheard as "hog moss", soul food fabricated from the stomach of a pig
• Schaefer Laurels Theatre, an album of theatrical films that aired on several U.South. Telly stations
• Natalie Wood, motion-picture show actress
• Steve McQueen, film actor
• Bullwinkle, cartoon character
• Julia, a TV half-hr sitcom series starring Diahann Carroll.
• "Give your mouth sex activity entreatment", from Ultra Brite toothpaste advertizement^[nine]
• "The revolution will not get rid of the nubs", the nubs being bristles stubble, from a Gillette Techmatic razor advertisement of the period
• Willie Mays, baseball player
• "NBC volition not be able to predict the winner at eight:32", a reference to television networks predicting the winner of presidential elections shortly afterwards the polls shut at 8 pm.
• Whitney Immature, civil rights leader
• Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP
• Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, alluding to the Watts Riots of 1965
• "Carmine, black, and green", the colors of the Pan-African flag
• Greenish Acres, a U.S. television sitcom
• The Beverly Hillbillies, a U.S. television set sitcom
• "Hooterville Junction" (a corruption of Petticoat Junction, a U.S. television sitcom, and its fictitious location)
• Dick and Jane, white children, a blood brother and sister, featured in American basal readers
• Search for Tomorrow, a popular U.S. television soap opera
• The Brighter Day, another U.S. television soap opera
• "Hairy-armed women liberationists", participants in 2d-wave feminism^[10]
• Jackie Onassis, the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy'south widow, seen during the period in television broadcasts of Kennedy memorials
• Jim Webb, U.S. composer
• Francis Scott Key, lyricist of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Glen Campbell, U.Southward. pop/state music singer, then hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
• Tom Jones, Welsh pop music singer, then hosting This Is Tom Jones
• Johnny Cash, U.S. country music vocalizer, then hosting The Johnny Cash Show
• Engelbert Humperdinck, British popular music vocaliser, and so hosting The Engelbert Humperdinck Show
• Rare Earth, all-white U.Southward. popular music ring signed to Motown Records (this band is only referred to in the 1971 version)
• "White tornado", advertizement slogan for Ajax cleanser, "Ajax cleans like a white tornado"
• "White lightning", a slang term for moonshine, the name of a 1950s country and western song by George Jones, and an American psychedelic rock band.
• "Dove in your bedroom", an advertising epitome associated with Dove anti-perspirant deodorant
• Reference to "Put a tiger in your tank", an Esso (now Exxon) advertisement slogan created past Chicago copywriter Emery Smith
• "Giant in your toilet bowl," a reference to Liquid-Plumr commercials saying that it cleared then well information technology was like "having a giant in your toilet basin" with an animation of a large arm using a plunger on your toilet.
• Reference to "Things become better with Coke", a Coca-Cola advertising slogan
• Reference to "Fights germs that may cause bad breath", from Listerine advertising
• Reference to "Permit Hertz put you in the commuter'south seat", advertising slogan for Hertz auto rental^{[11] [12]}

In popular civilization [edit]

• The Sarah Jones song "Your Revolution," a feminist interpretation of the song criticizing misogyny in mainstream hip hop, with the key line "Your revolution will not happen betwixt these thighs". A radio station that played the song was fined by the FCC.^[xiii]
• In 1995, Nike released a basketball interpretation of the poem narrated by KRS-1 accompanied by a similar bass & flute instrumental in a commercial featuring Jason Kidd, Jim Jackson, Eddie Jones, Joe Smith, & Kevin Garnett equally the revolutionary leaders wearing Nike sneakers while playing basketball game, concluding with KRS-One narrating, "The Revolution is about basketball, and basketball is the truth.^[14]
• The opening line of "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach", performed by Snoop Dogg on the Gorillaz album Plastic Embankment, is "The revolution will be televised".^[15]
• In 2010, New Statesman mag listed information technology as one of the "Top xx Political Songs".^[16]
• In 2011, after Scott-Heron's death, Lupe Fiasco released a verse form dedicated to him titled "The Tv set Will Not Exist Revolutionized".^{[17] [18]}
• In June 2013, a sign quoting the verse form'southward title (in Greek) was posted on a window inside the Greek state broadcaster ERT equally employees resisted its closure by the government under pressure from the troika of the EU, ECB and the IMF to cutting public spending nether their thrift government.^[19]
• Released in September 2013, South Korean entertainer G-Dragon's "Coup d'Etat" contains a song sample of "The Revolution Will Not Exist Televised".^{[20] [21] [22]}
• The song "Inaugural to Armageddon", performed past Public Enemy, contains the lyric "This fourth dimension effectually, the revolution will not be televised".^[23]
• The vocal "Wu-Revolution" by the Wu-Tang Clan contains groundwork lyrics "The revolution volition be televised." and "The revolution should be televised." as a variation on Scott-Heron's message.^[24]
• The vocal "vi Summers" by Anderson Paak states "The revolution will not exist televised/ But it volition be streamed live/ In 1080p on your pea-brain caput in the face ass mobile device/ Alright?"^[25]
• The teaser trailer for Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) features the vocal.^[26]
• The official trailer for the 2018 film Black Panther features the song.^[27]
• During the 2020–2022 U.s. racial unrest, the phrase "The Manny Will Not Be Televised" referenced both the song and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid character Manny Heffley, since many of the protestors grew upward reading the serial.^[28]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Scott‐Heron, Gil (2007). "The Revolution Will Non Be Televised". In Eleveld, Mark (ed.). The Spoken Word Revolution Redux. Naperville, Sick.: Sourcebooks MediaFusion. pp. 214–215.
• Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Exist Televised on YouTube

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