soundtracks · rosenberg1983-image-stereotype

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.