In "Somebody's Calling My Name," Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker has met a long-standing need by making available the history of Black people in America in terms of their music. Others have suggested this relationship, but memory does not recall anyone who has presented the music of American Black people as a clue to their history, or vice versa, with the thoroughness which marks "Somebody's Calling My Name.
Dr. Walker brings to his task an almost incomparably broad and varied background and talents every bit as diverse and rich as have been his experiences. He was a crucial part of Dr. Martin Luther King's crusade for freedom; he is a successful pastor, a preacher of notable endowments, and enjoys a talent for singing with moving power the songs of hope and sorrow about which he writes so ergagingly in this volume.