Swing

the idea that record companies used "hot" and "sweet" to identify a certain style is another way they used it to divide race in the music industry. Hot jazz was more oriented to the black jazz players who had a thicker beat and let the music do more of the talking. In sweet the whiter side had more singer based with a few solo's here and there. The idea to only appeal to certain audience is odd to use but it was not far fetched in the early 1900's. The music industry distancing itself from black players and music may have set back much of the styles progress. one player comes to mind when talking about race and swing and that would be Duke Ellington. Playing the cotton club for rich white folk who would come to "experience black life. What the cotton club was really doing is portraying what it might have been for African Americans during that time. They had no idea of what it really meant to be a minority they were just profiting from the new style and doing it well.