{"id":347473,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347473/?format=json","airdate":"2019-06-28T15:30:00-07:00","show":5786,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"At Home He’s a Tourist","track_id":"6b6fb48f-f03a-3349-bdb5-d52ede23f596","recording_id":null,"artist":"Gang of Four","artist_ids":["d8661c02-f423-4d72-8044-40ff05daf7a1"],"album":"Entertainment!","release_id":"ba5f41ea-f20c-3a77-9522-5c129a3f15bd","release_group_id":null,"labels":["EMI"],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1979-09-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The album's artwork was designed by band members Jon King and Andy Gill. The cover, designed by King, shows the influence of the Situationist International, a group which became famous during the Paris '68 student-led revolution in France. The cover depicts an \"Indian\" shaking hands with a \"cowboy\" in three heavily processed versions of the same image, based on a still from one of the Winnetou films starring Lex Barker and Pierre Brice, which had once been popular in communist East Germany as critical narratives of capitalism. The faces are reduced to blobs of red and white — that is, to the stereotypical racial colours. A text that winds around the images reads, \"The Indian smiles, he thinks that the cowboy is his friend. The cowboy smiles, he is glad the Indian is fooled. Now he can exploit him.\" In this way, it approaches themes of exploitation, but taken with the lyrical content of the album, it may also point to simplistic depictions of ethnic, social or political conflict in the media as \"cowboys and Indians\". <br><br>\n\nThe album's back cover depicts a family whose father says, \"I spend most of our money on myself so that I can stay fat\", while the mother and children declare, \"We're grateful for his leftovers\". On the album's inner sleeve, small photographs depicting scenes shown on television are interlaced with text illustrating what the band suggests are the misleading subtexts of media presentation: \"The facts are presented neutrally so that the public can make up its own mind\"; \"Men act heroically to defend their country\"; \"People are given what they want.\"  https://bit.ly/2HCIHAE","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}