ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces an entrancing and profound series of essays about the arts: “Music,” “Visual Art,” “Prose and Poetry,” and “Mime and Dance.” Writing about music served another purpose for Joe, even beyond explaining the origins of one of humanity’s major cultural achievements. He uses it as an opportunity to immerse the reader in the sensory, affective, and social world of the human infant, the matrix from which, by Joe’s vision, most of each individual’s sense of self and psychological destiny evolve.
