Abstract
In 1974, Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" blasted its way to popular fame on radio channels, assuring the nation that television was a medium of hopeless consensus, aimed at the white majority and suited only to reproducing the lackluster shop-a-day world of happy homebodies. Proclaiming that one day "Green Acres, [the] B everly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction will no longer be so damn relevant," Heron sang of a better world, better in part because, as he said in his famous last line, rather than being on TV, the "revolution will be live."
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | The Revolution Wasn't Televised |
| Subtitle of host publication | Sixties Television and Social Conflict |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781135205409 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0415911214, 9780415911214 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)