{"id":7029,"date":"2026-07-03T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/music-is-a-vicarious-experience-ucla-instructors-class-insight\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:09:08","slug":"music-is-a-vicarious-experience-ucla-instructors-class-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/music-is-a-vicarious-experience-ucla-instructors-class-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Is a Vicarious Experience: UCLA Instructor\u2019s Class Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent session of the Artist Entrepreneurship course at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclaextension.edu\/\">UCLA Extension<\/a><\/strong>, instructor <strong>Hisham Dahud<\/strong> led a discussion that produced a concise definition: &#8220;Music is a vicarious experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dahud noted that the term vicarious typically describes living through others, as with novels or films. 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The recording itself has not changed.<\/p>\n<p>Dahud connected this idea to <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/the-convergence-economy-when-music-becomes-culture-commerce-and-content\/\">the business of music<\/a>. Artists, he argued, are not selling songs, albums, or concert tickets. They are selling emotional experiences that allow another person to feel something they could not reach on their own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re no longer trying to sell songs,&#8221; Dahud said. &#8220;You&#8217;re creating opportunities for people to experience more life than they could on their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hisham Dahud is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer, live electronic artist, and educator. 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