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Image and Stereotype: Bluegrass Sound Tracks — American Music
- Key
- rosenberg1983-image-stereotype
- Authors
- Rosenberg, Neil V.
- Issued
- 1983
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- American Music
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1-22
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Claims
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From the early 1960s bluegrass, especially the five-string banjo, became a soundtrack convention in film and television for chases, slapstick and "country" themes. Its three best-selling records were all soundtrack hits: "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" from The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" from Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and "Dueling Banjos" from Deliverance (1972).
"In movies it accompanies chases, slapstick comedy routines, "country" themes, or some combination of these. The use of a certain kind of music to accompany a certain range of visual images indicates that it is one of the sound track conventions of the film and video industries. ... There have been three such hits with bluegrass music in the past two decades: "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" from television's The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" from Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and "Dueling Banjos" from Deliverance (1972). These three recordings are the best-selling records in the history of bluegrass. ... The development of this convention, with its various connotations, began in the early 1960s."
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