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Rick Rubin

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

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Essay Topics

1.

How has Rubin’s career influenced contemporary music? Identify real-world music examples that reflect his philosophy of creativity as explained in The Creative Act.

2.

Explain why Rubin writes in versified and aphoristic sentences as transitions between chapters? What does this formal consideration accomplish?

3.

Rubin calls his chapters “Areas of Thought.” How does this renaming of conventional “chapters” operate rhetorically? What effect does it have on the audience? In what manner does it define Rubin’s authorial persona?