Play Like a Man

My Life in Poster Children

Rose Marshack

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780252086960
  9780252044861
• eBook ISBN:
  9780252054013
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Tour Reports
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part One. 1980s: College
• Part Two. 1987–1992: Pre–Major Label Life
• Part Three. 1993–1996: Major Label Life
• Part Four. 1997: Post–Major Label
• Appendix: List of Poster Children Alumni and Timeline
• Notes
• Index