...Harold Dean Trulear Harold A. Carter , Wyatt Tee Walker , and William A. Jones , Jr. The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future . New York : Martin Luther King Fellows Press , 1991 . 103 pp. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Book Reviews...

...) and whose they are (children of God). In giving this overview we will basically follow the historical chronology set in Wyatt T. Walker's book, "Somebody's Calling My Name Black Sacred Music and Social Change. 3 Since music is an integral ingredient of African life it is no accident that during slavery...

... chapters of The Signifying Monkey to applying the theory to a very close reading of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker. Although his interest here is in Afro-American literature, he suggests that the fundamental aspect of signifyin(g)-intertextualityis not limited to the criticism...

... Belafonte, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mahalia Jackson, and Nat King Cole, who gave benefits to raise money, by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and, of course, black churches. Between Belafonte and Davis, who were the principal contributors, Wyatt T. Walker said that, to his knowledge, Belafonte contributed more...

...) and congregational music (worship and praise songs, testimony songs, and hymns). Testimony hymns, referred to as "prayer and praise hymns" by Wyatt T. Walker, 5 are of course congregational songs which have long been traditional to the black church. Often sung at prayer meetings or as congregational songs during...

... to theology as a public enterprise, both depend heavily on popular culture for the "stuff" of analysis, and both focus on the import of black religion on the cultural development of African Americans. The shared concerns are most clearly seen in Carter's and Walker's sections, where they point to black sacred...

..., "There'll Be No Rationing in Glory" (by Prof. M . "Don" Walker), seems to be a response to government rationing of commodities during wartime. Most of the songs in the volume do not credit the author. Nonetheless it has been possible to determine that Thomas A. Dorsey, Albert Brumley, E. M. Bartlett, Elder...

.... My friend Wyatt Tee Walker, in New York, said that in 1974 Dean Morton of St. John's Cathedral in New York City served as a convenor of a three-day conference on the Holocaust. The intent was to sensitize Americans under thirty years old to those Jews who were killed by Hitler. Walker declares...

... Following Spencer's presentation, Rev. Phyllis Byrd played a video of the African-American preacher Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker giving a sermonic lecture on black sacred music before his New York City congregation, Canaan Baptist Church. Walker's choir sang samples of the musical forms Walker discussed in his...

..., Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987. - - - . Sacred Symphony: The Chanted Sermon of the Black Preacher. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1987. Thurman, Howard. Deep River and The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 1975. Walker, Wyatt Tee. "Somebody's Calling My...

..., 51 Solanke, Samuel, 56 Spencer, Jon Michael, xiii, 4, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30 Stallings, George A., 29, 30 Tanyanyiwa, Fackson, 4, 50 Temple, Arnold, xiii, 4, 54 Thurman, Howard, 30 Turyamusiima, Grace, 4 Waitara, Reuben, 4 Waite, Leonardo, 4 Walker, Wyatt T., 20, 29 Warugaba, Cosmo, 4 women...

... the point of this vernacular theory of signifyin(g) has been fully defined and argued, Gates devotes the three closing chapters of The Signifying Monkey to applying the theory to a very close reading of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker. Although his interest here is in Afro...

... A. Walker's Believers: The Black Experience in Song (1968) would achieve greater success in tracing black history from Africa to the present. But whites, even some blacks, in BooleRerlew, JJ9 the first half of the century were rather unprepared for blacks to take themselves and their history too seriously...

... Troubadours, the various musical extravaganzas of Cole and Johnson, and of Williams and Walker, and others, will readily recall the fact that many features, especially the chorus singing, far surpassed anything similarly presented by white people. These Negro companies very wisely chose themes which would...

... and the black hymnic tradition are smoothly interwoven, neither should be accented to the exclusion of the other. Hymn singing and preaching are inseparable parts of a total liturgy. In his lecture at the 1983 Hampton Ministers Conference, Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, Pastor of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, New...

... Songs 45 25 l'ntil my brethren in the South, From chains are all set freeThe Old Liberia Is not the place for me . lthough (as \los es Walker says,) 'There children never cry:' And he who can well act the hog, For food will never die; 'For there the yams and cocoa-nuts, And oranges are free;' Yet old...

... Spirituals Triumphant, Old and New. Nashville: National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., 1927. b36 Walker, Wyatt Tee, Spirits That Dwell in Deep Woods: The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience. New York: Martin Luther King Fellows Press, 1987. b27 l'es, Lord!: Church of God in Christ Hymnal...

..., and Henri Christophe, Haitian compatriots. Sing of Crispus Attucks, the runaway slave who cried, "Do not be afraid," and later fell dead on the Boston Common, the first to die for liberty; David Walker, freedom fighter who declared, "I will stand my ground." Sing of Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Gabriel...

... Tuskegee Institute, 199, 219, 234, 23S, 237,238,242 Vittoria, Tomas Luis de, 191 voodoo,37 Wagner, Richard, 7S, 180 Walker, George, 46 Wallenschek, Richard, 8, 190, 239 war songs, 140-41 Ward Sisters, 26, 27 Ware, Charles Pickard, 18, 147, 239 washboard, 44 Washington, Booker T., 167, 237 Washington...

... Eucharist of the Soul, to which we will now tum our attention, is emblematic of Mclin' s ethnicity, religiosity, and vibrant humanity. Eucharist of the Soul This liturgical mass for mixed chorus (SATB) with piano or organ accompaniment, was commissioned by Rev. William James Walker, Vicar-Pastor, Holy Cross...