Native Joy For Real

Joy Harjo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 2004)
• Original Release Date: July 8, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mekko Productions
• ASIN: B0002OPLI0
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,168 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Last World of Fire and Trash

2. Grace

3. Fear Song

4. Hold Up

5. The Woman Hanging from the 13th Floor

6. This Is My Heart

7. Reality Show

8. Eagle Song

9. Morning Song

10. The Had-It-Up-To-Here Round Dance

Editorial Reviews

j. poet, Native People's Magazine, forthcoming

" . so brimming with soul and beauty, even long time fans will be astonished by the power of its poetic vision. . ."

Product Description

Internationally known Native American poet and musician Joy Harjo mixes the powerful lyrics of her raw smoky singing topped with jazzy, saucy licks of her alto sax. The result is a distinct native sound blended with jazz, rock, even folk and a touch of hip hop soul for spice. You can sing to it, you can dance to it, cry to it, even laugh a little.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NATIVE JOY FOR REAL ROCKS!, November 11, 2004

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Pamela Uschuk (Salem College Center for Women Writers) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Native Joy For Real (Audio CD)

Joy Harjo's new cd, "Native Joy for Real," rocks! Harjo's music matters, in content and in arrangement, an intoxicating blend of reggae, traditional Native American, Caribbean and African rhythms. From hauntingly beautiful songs like "Grace" and "This is my Heart" to disturbing and unforgettable songs like "The Woman hanging from the 13th Floor," "Fear Song" and "Reality Show" to the tongue-in-cheek playfulness of the final piece, "The Had-It-Up-To-Here Round Dance," Harjo proves once again why she is a genius on so many levels-as a poet, an arranger, and a musician. She also proves irrefutably that she can sing us all back to life. Her voice is at once strong and vulnerable. I've listened to this cd again and again--in the car, at home, and in classrooms. Each time, it never fails to move me to tears or to dance at my luck to be alive and listening to such powerful music. Do yourself a favor. Buy this cd for yourself and one for someone you care about.

Pamela Uschuk, Director of the Salem College Center for Women Writers

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better unsung, October 2, 2004

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D. Rachlin "wunland" (Stow, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Native Joy For Real (Audio CD)

Put this cd on, close your eyes, and imagine a Native American Yoko Ono and a bit of Germany's Nena (sans baloons), and you may have an idea of what's in store. A real mixture of musical styles...and singing ability...makes you want to listen over and over again, first out of disbelief that Harjo would do this to her brilliant poems, and then because you suddenly begin to like it. Any fan of Joy Harjo has to have this cd, but it's no way to introduce newcomers to her work; better off with the regular texts with poems or the Letter from the end of the century cd.

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice CD, but nevermore with Amazon, September 14, 2009

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marcello "marcello" (italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Native Joy For Real (Audio CD)

Nice CD, not at the same level of her masterpiece Letter from the End of the 20th Century. But nevermore with Amazon: to collect the package from the postman (I bought 2 CDs), I had to pay additional fees: 11,38 Euro (custom duties or what else?). This is not a great service Amazon allows to Authors. Please stop asking why people use Napster & Co. Good-bye Amazon.com