Play Like a ManRose MarshackLabel: University of Illinois PressDescription: 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.
