The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Analysis

poem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” was written by Gil Scott-Heron. This poem is mainly about the absence of media coverage in the African-American communities. Also, the Hip-Hop genre of music was influenced in many ways by this poem from the way the words were spoken, to the rhythm of the music, and many of its important messages relevant to that time when the poem was created. Gil Scott-Heron felt like his people, African-Americans, were not given the amount of attention as maybe the “white man” was. The fight for the black man’s rights and the education they brought upon themselves were not made known. When African-Americans marched, and fought for what they deserved “Where was the media to be found?” was the question.

The real truth behind these television shows, and songs that have been played are not going to be told by these actresses and actors nor will they be told by any singers. The facts were being disguised by these broadcasts like nothing is even happening in these communities. Black people just felt like they were being forgotten even after the Civil Rights Movement. The government was so corrupt at the time and didn’t want blacks to have any media coverage whatsoever. They just wanted to forget about black people and so they treated them like were nothing and they pretended as if they never even existed as a people.
To get into people’s heads and make them remember the poem he used a rhetorical technique called repetition. The poem told people what the revolution would not be by introducing something new with every repetition. He also managed to bring forms of humor into the song as well even being that it was dealing with a serious matter. Gil Scott-Heron really tried to make his people get up and take action to let any issues and uncovered matters to be shown in the