Background
Armond Allen White was born in Detroit, Michigan as the youngest of seven children.
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Rebel for the Hell of it: Life of Tupac Shakur by Armond White (1997-06-01)
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Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur
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This first full length biography of Tupac Shakur details each step in Shakur's development, from his early exposure to racism and political activism to his studies of drama to his move from New York to the West Coast and his innovative work with early hip hop culture and music. Armond White's understanding of Tupac's art will uncork the bottled up rage and confusion that attends the way hip hop culture is produced and received. The ever controversial Shakur offers a great occasion for a close, passionate reading of rap and ghetto culture. His art can be helpful in cross-referencing the ideas of self-expression and the efforts toward survival and resistance that seem so haphazard and conflicted in much of hip hop music. Through connections drawn between Shakur and Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., Dr. Dre, Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Sister Souljah, White examines Shakur's life as a prism for the hip hop world.
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Rebel For the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur
(This wonderful, and informative book: "Rebel for the hell...)
This wonderful, and informative book: "Rebel for the hell of it", by Armond White is about the life of Tupac Shakur. It is one of the most important music books of the year. "The son of a Black Panther activist, Tupac Shakur epitomized the contradictions and tensions that surround the phenomenon of gangster rap. More than many other rappers. Tupac lived the life portrayed in his multi-million selling records and died the bullets he was accused of glamourizing".
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Armond White
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Education
Columbia University; Columbia University School of the Arts.
Career
He currently writes for National Review and Out. He was previously the editor of CityArts (2011–2014), the lead film critic for the alternative weekly New York Press (1997–2011), and the arts editor and critic for The City Sun (1984–1996). Other publications that have carried his work include Film Comment, Variety, The Nation, The New York Times, Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, and First Things.
His family was the first African-American family to move to a primarily Jewish neighborhood, where he grew up.
His interest in journalism and film criticism began as a student at Detroit"s Central High School, when he first read film critic Pauline Kael"s book, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang whom he cites for "her willingness to go against the hype", along with Andrew Sarris, for his "sophisticated love of cinema", as being a major inspiration on his choice of professional career. White received a Master of Fine Arts degree in film from Columbia University"s School of the Arts in 1997.
White was the arts editor for The City Sun, where he wrote film, music and theater criticism, for the span of its publication from 1984 to 1996. He was hired by New York Press in 1997 and wrote for the paper until it ceased publication in August 2011.
He then assumed the editorship of the Press"s sister publication CityArts starting in September.
He has taught classes on film at Columbia University and Long Island University. White claims to watch "five to 10 movies a week" and "as many as 400 films a year". In January 2014 White was expelled from The New York Film Critics Circle for allegedly heckling director Steve McQueen at an event for the film 12 Years a Slave.
White maintained his innocence, and characterized his expulsion as a "smear campaign".
Achievements
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In 1992 White won the 25th Annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Deems Taylor Award for music criticism for "The Gloved One Is Not a Chump", his essay on Michael Jackson"s "Black or White" video. White received an "Anti-Censorship Award", as a part of the 35th annual American Book Awards, because of his being "unfairly removed" from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Works
book
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Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur
(This first full length biography of Tupac Shakur details ...)
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Rebel For the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur
(This wonderful, and informative book: "Rebel for the hell...)
- Rebel for the Hell of it: Life of Tupac Shakur by Armond White (1997-06-01)
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Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur
Membership
White is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Online. He was the three time chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle (1994, 2009 and 2010), and has also served as a member of the jury at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Mill Valley Film Festival and was a member of several National Endowment for the Arts panels.
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2014 (aged 61)