Tim Maia's Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2 - Couverture souple

Thayer, Allen

 
9781501321535: Tim Maia's Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1501321536 ISBN 13 : 9781501321535
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

At the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Brazil's-and the globe's-best funk and soul music. This book explores the career of the man often hailed as the James Brown or Barry White of Brazil, and the time of his radical transformation from a musician notorious for hedonistic living to a devoted follower of Manoel Jacinto Coelho's Rational Culture.

After suddenly joining Coelho's cult in 1974 (which started first as an offshoot of the mystical Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda), Maia gave up drugs and alcohol, threw away his material possessions, and released Racional Vols. 1 & 2 in the attempt to convert the entirety of Brazil and the world to the revelation of Rational Culture. Thayer explores this strange, brief, yet incredibly prolific period of Maia's life wherein the reigning soul and funk artist of Brazil produced two albums, an EP, and a recently unearthed tape containing almost another full album of funky jams laced with spiritual content and scripture. For just as quickly as Maia became entranced with Coelho did he become disillusioned with the cult, disavowing and destroying everything having to do with that experience and refusing to speak of it for the rest of his life.

33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

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À propos de l'auteur

Allen Thayer is a writer for the magazine Wax Poetics.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501321536
ISBN 13 
9781501321535
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781501321528: Tim Maia's Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2

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ISBN 10 :  1501321528 ISBN 13 :  9781501321528
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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