It felt strange to me, too, but it tells us something about how government bureaucrats looked upon black music. What makes it particularly odd is the fact that the U.S. Government played jazz on the Voice of America and would soon be sending jazz performers on State Dept. tours. As I thought about it, much later, it occurred to me that this was 1948, a time when black music was embraced in the U.S. by those damned left-winger, the commies. :) What I do recall seeing in the collection was music by American composers like Charles Ives, Menotti, Copeland, ND Virgil Thompson, plus, some Broadway musicals and that really awful patriotic pop stuff with big choirs and strings.
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