“Ten chubby digits clapped midline in positive affirmation, as a rare toothless grin beamed up at me in the midst of plush toys and pink linens. The fussiest critic I had available to me, my barely two-month old cousin Caitlyn, would soon unwittingly answer a recent musical query-- whether the enjoyment of sound was hinged upon recognizable cultural structures like language and tonality, or whether”
