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Michael Jackson

Birth date
Friday, August 29, 1958

Death date
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson is the most famous person from Indiana. Their Zodiac sign is ♍ Virgo. They were 50 years old at the time of their death. Their most notable profession was Singer. Their other professions include songwriter and dancer. They are considered the most important person in history born in Indiana.

Their birthplace was Gary, Indiana

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I was a kind of musical Columbus in reverse.
Alan Lomax, "Saga of a Folksong Hunter"

On September 24, 1950, United States folk song collector and documentarian Alan Lomax boarded the SS Mauretania and sailed for Europe. He was 35 years old. After almost 15 years documenting folk music in the United States, Lomax was keen by 1950 to escape the growing constraints of the anticommunist Red Scare as well as various personal issues. In his notebook, he wrote that he was setting off to become "a comrade of the world." Born in Texas, he had started out as a folk song collector with his father, John Lomax, while Alan was a college student. Together they conducted field recording trips for the Library of Congress and the US federal government in the early 1930s. Alan continued to work for the Library's Archive of American Folk Song during the height of the New Deal led by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to the crisis of the Great Depression. Then Lomax turned to radio work to support the Allied war effort during World War II. Once in Europe after the war, Lomax's journeys would take him on intensive field recording trips. In the early 1950s, he traveled around England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. In the mid-1950s, he went to Spain and Italy. He also produced numerous radio documentary shows for the British Broadcasting Company and he oversaw the release of the first volumes in the World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, a project for Columbia Records that initially funded his Atlantic crossing. Lomax would not return to the United States until almost a decade later, in 1958.

Lomax's transatlantic experiences in the 1950s were crucial to his development of new ideas about folk music and its relationship to processes of cultural preservation and hybridization. His time in Europe inspired him to shift from the nation as the fundamental unit of analysis for music and cultur