Amilcar ShabazzAfrican-AmericanLift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. – book reviewsHow is a culture — or a nation, for that matter — created? It is called into being at the aboriginal level. Sound and sign, and song, and word are deployed. And the African American experience — as Black cultural construction in the United States is now called — like all other cultures, has an oral tradition at its center.July 12, 2007Page 1 of 1