Tim Maia racional vols. 1 & 2

by Thayer, Allen

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Title Statements

Full title :Tim Maia racional vols. 1 & 2 / Allen Thayer.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 225 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781501321535, 1501321536, 9781501321528, 1501321528
oclc:on1051778072
LC Classification:ML420.M146
Dewey Decimal:782.42164092

Machine generated contents note: 1.Tim Maia Irrational, 1942 -- 73 -- 2.The Band, the Shed, and Fatherhood (Late 1973-Early 1974) -- Interlude: Seu Manoel and Rational Culture -- 3.50 Mescaline + Universe in Disenchantment = Tim Maia Racional? (1974) -- Interlude: Searching for Light during Brazil's Dark Years -- 4.Tim Maia Racional Vol. 1 (Late 1974) -- 5.Rational Friends and Family (Early 1975) -- 6.Tim Maia Racional Vol. 2 (Early-Mid 1975) -- 7.Tim Maia Racional Vol. 3 and the End of Rationality -- 8.The Disenchantment -- 9.Irrational and Loving It -- 10.Rational Legacy -- Interlude: Carmelo, Tell Me What to Do -- 11.The Rescue and Reconstruction of Tim Mala Racional Vol. 3.

Subjects

Brazil Coelho, Manoel Jacinto Criticism, interpretation, etc Funk (Music) Funk (Music) -- History and criticism. … Maia, Tim Musique populaire -- Histoire et critiq… Popular music Popular music -- History and criticism.… Soul music Soul music -- History and criticism. --…