Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children

By Rose Marshack

Book Overview

As a member of Poster Children, Rose Marshack took part in entwined revolutions. Marshack and other women seized a much-elevated profile in music during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital technologies transformed the recording and marketing of music. Touring in a van, meeting your idols, juggling a programming job with music, keeping control and credibility, the perils of an independent record label (and the greater perils of a major)--Marshack chronicles the band's day-to-day life and punctuates her account with excerpts from her tour reports and hard-learned lessons on how to rock, program, and teach while female. She also details the ways Poster Children applied punk's DIY ethos to digital tech as a way to connect with fans via then-new media like pkids listservs, internet radio, and enhanced CDs.

An inside look at a scene and a career, Play Like a Man is the evocative and humorous tale of one woman's life in the trenches and online.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252086961
• ISBN13: 9780252086960
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.9" x 11.8"