Since the mid-1960s, just after the time at which Jameson posits the emergence of postmodernist aesthetics, German musicians and producers, operating in a range of fields of musical production from highbrow Ernste-Musik (serious music) to jazz and rock, have experimented with notions of Weltmusik (a term I will not translate since, in German discourses, Weltmusik has tended to signify western music in which various musical components are thought to synthesise into a whole, whereas the English term `world music' has often been used by the music industry as a marketing label to represent `authentic' musics from the margins)
