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with 'Song Reader' By CHRIS TALBOTT , AP Music Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Beck Hansen wants you to think about the
way music has changed over the last century and what that means
about how human beings engage each other these days.  Laboring
over the intricate and ornate details of his new "Song Reader"
sheet music project, he was struck by how social music used to
be — something we've lost in the age of ear buds.  "You watch an
old film and see how people would dance together in the '20s,
'30s and '40s. You'd go out and people would switch partners and
it was a way of social interaction," Hansen said. "It's
something that was part of what brought people together. Playing
music in the home is another aspect of that that's been lost.
Again, I'm not on a campaign to get people to take up songs and
play music in their home or anything. But it is interesting to
me, the loss of that, what it means."  Beck hopes the "Song
Reader" inspires some of u