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"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"--
List of contents
List of Tour Reports Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One. 1980s: CollegeChapter 1. Origin Story
Chapter 2. The Scene at College
Chapter 3. Punk Bands in Dorms
Chapter 4. Computers
Chapter 5. Play Like a Man
Part Two. 1987-1992: Pre-major Label LifeChapter 6. The Indie Code of Ethics
Chapter 7. Local
Chapter 8. Regional
Chapter 9. National
Part Three. 1993-1996: Major Label LifeChapter 10. Mashed Potatoes
Chapter 11. Recording
Chapter 12. Touring
Chapter 13. Radio Sucks
Chapter 14. Computer Experiments
Chapter 15. Expectations
Chapter 16. Big Changes
Part Four. 1997: Post Major LabelChapter 17. Online Participation
Chapter 18. Life as a Woman
Chapter 19. How to Look at Things
Chapter 20. Teaching
Appendix: List of Poster Children Alumni
Notes
Index
About the author
Rose Marshack
