Response To Article #5

After reading article #5, Hillbilly and Race Music, I have discovered a few interesting things in the reading. The first thing that I discovered was the fact that Columbia Records never imagined that Negroes themselves might be involved in the market for Negro Records. Could Columbia Records be naive enough to believe that? Another thing that I have discovered in this article that is actually kind of cool is that this talent scout Mr. Peer, who worked for Columbia Records, created the term "Hillbillies". He created this term when he was working on records with artists that were from the south and who were mountaineers. My question related to this article is, why would Columbia Records carefully hide the fact that colored singers were being used to create songs?