I don’t have access to the content of this book, but I was struck by the abstract to this chapter:

ABSTRACT

The right to an education is an important human right and is regulated in considerable detail in Articles 13 and 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as well as in Articles 28 and 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. With the sole exception of the United States, all United Nations member States have accepted the right to education as a legally binding human right that needs to be implemented in their domestic systems. (emphasis added)

Chapter: Music Education
Child Development and Human Rights
By Steven J. Holochwost, Elizabeth Stuk

The book citation is:
Fifer, J., Impey, A., Kirchschlaeger, P.G., Nowak, M., & Ulrich, G. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (1st ed.). Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478
eBook ISBN 9781003043478

Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the well-being of individuals, peoples, and the planet. It brings forward the expertise of academic researchers, lawyers, human rights practitioners, and performing musicians who offer critical reflection on how their work might identify, inform, or advance mutual interests in their respective fields. The book is comprised of 28 chapters, interspersed with 23 ‘voices’ – portraits that focus on individuals’ intimate experiences with music in the defence or advancement of human rights – and explores the following four themes: 1) Fundamentals on music and human rights; 2) Music in pursuit of human rights; 3) Music as a means of violating human rights; 4) Human rights and music: intrinsic resonances.

The book is scheduled for publishing on May 31, 2022. $250 for print, under $50.00 USD for ebook format.

I really gotta look into becoming a student or getting associated with an organization or library that would allow me to access research articles, journals, ans books. It’s the one thing I miss most about IBM: access to technical journals through the library. That, and the IBM Club band, aka the Blue Diamonds Jazz Orchestra (BDJO). 

While not exactly fitting in with music, but maybe under basic human rights (free speech, anyone?), here is an open access article reporting on the results of the Parkinson’s Voice initiative:

Conclusion first:

Sustained vowels may provide an objective, robust and streamlined approach towards informing PwP subtype assignment. The current study’s findings corroborate part of the PD research literature indicating the presence of four PD subtypes having been thoroughly validated on a large PwP cohort and externally validated on two additional PwP cohorts. There are important practical implications of defining PD subtypes using data that is easy to self-collect remotely such as speech signals and in particular sustained vowel /a/ phonations: they enable large-scale investigations and may bring us a step closer towards more personalized medicine approaches and targeted clinical management. The key limitation of the study is that we do not have additional clinical labels (e.g. UPDRS) or other self-reported outcome measures to map the resulting PD subtypes onto something that would be more tangible and comparable to related PD subtype studies. Future work could explore the extent subtypes form useful markers of symptom severity progression and conversely how PD progression might affect subtype membership for individual PwP. Similarly, further work could integrate additional modalities to speech to incorporate longitudinal passively collected modalities and self-reports which could be capturing PD-related symptoms, e.g. via using smartphones and wearables along the lines we have explored for mental disorders [64], [67]–[70]. Collecting additional modalities at scale using increasingly affordable technologies may provide new insights towards understanding PD subtypes which may translate into understanding individual PwP similarities, related PwP symptom trajectories, and ultimately lead to better symptom management strategies.

and from the abstract:

Purpose
People diagnosed with Parkinson’s (PwP) exhibit a diverse manifestation of heterogeneous symptoms which likely reflect different subtypes. However, there is no widely accepted consensus on the criteria for subtype membership assignment. We explored clustering PwP using a data-driven approach mining speech signals.
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Results
We selected 21 dysphonia measures and found four main clusters which provide tentative insights into different dominating speech-associated characteristics (cophenetic coefficient=0.72, silhouette score=0.67). The cluster findings were consistent across the three PVI cohorts, strongly supporting the generalization of the presented methodology towards PwP subtype assignment, and were independently visually verified in 2D projections with t-SNE.

The citation (and the link to access) this open access article are: