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US musician and poct Gil Scott-Heron, often called the Godfather of Rap, has died in a New York hospital 62. 1
Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949-the son of a former Britain football player. 2
Scott-Heron’s material covered soul, jazz, blues and the spoken word.His 1970s work heavily influenced the US hip-hop and rap scenes.
3 But the artist himself refused this title.“If ther was any individual initiative that I was responsible for, it might have been that there was music in certain poems of mine, with complete progression and repeating “hooks”. 4 ” Soott-Heron wrote in the introduction to his 1990 Now and Then collection of poems.Scott-Heron’s music and poetry showed his ddep interest in justice and civil rights, and he complained against the consumer society of the 1970s and 80s as well as the development of muclear technology.He was among the first artists to use h is music to attack the apartheid(种族隔离)in South Africa, long before the issue became the focus of a popular global campaign. 5 One of his most famous pieces was The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.In this piece, he criticized the role of race in the mass media and advertising age.
But in a 1998 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Scott-Heron wrned against focusing on the political aspect of his work.“If you only focus on the political aspects of our work, you change us.We’ve done 20 albums and not all of the songs on them are political.” He said.
A.But I don’t like football in Britain.
B.His work had a strong political element.
C.He grew up in Tennessee before moving to New York.
D.Scott was so crazy about politics that all of his songs are political.
E.This made them more like songs than just recitations with percussion.
F.The cause of his death is not clear, but he is believed to have become ill after returning from a visit to Europe.
G.The pioneering style he developed while working with Jackson, mixing minimalist percussion with poetry, meant that Scott-Heron was often described as the Godfather of rap.
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