The phrase "and in the background of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is occurring or existing behind the main subject or focus of a discussion or image.
Example: "The painting features a vibrant sunset, and in the background of the scene, you can see distant mountains."
Alternatives: "against the backdrop of" or "in the backdrop of".
Each day, she takes a self-portrait, and in the background of one she accidentally captures a nine-year-old boy falling to his death.
By altering the status or abundance of the Bacteroides tryptophanase, we can modulate IS levels in gnotobiotic mice and in the background of a conventional murine gut community.
And in the background of their photographs we had two little wooden dolls standing face to face, looking at and smiling at each other.
Something else has changed: Strand is now old, and in the background of his poetry of the past ten years a ticking clock makes the subtle self-consciousness feel absurd.
(And in the background, of course, is the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on whether the Boy Scouts have a right to exclude gay members, some of them touching on religion and morality, the day before the theologians were contacted).
David Sprintzen suggests these taken-for-granted attitudes operate implicitly and in the background of human projects and very rarely become conscious (Sprintzen 1988, 123).
The film's strong and simple dramatic backbone sustains a wide range of incidental events that arise from the premise and fill in the background of the story and the characters with a cleverly calculated precision.
No man, and no crime, is an island – however charming the woods and coasts in the background of the murder scene.
And somewhere in the background of every such celebration is a clubhouse manager.
And so in the background of all this gathered perhaps some of the most interesting people alive on the planet.
Booze is the reward at the end of a long day of papers – you can feel the prickle of anticipation as the caterers clatter and jingle in the background of a mediocre presentation.
