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  • 10 - Faust

  • from Part II - Music
  • Edited by Uwe Schütte, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
    Published online:
    20 October 2022
    Print publication:
    27 October 2022, pp 158-172

  • Summary

    The chapter analyses Faust‘s work, situating their sound within the diverse Krautrock trend and outlining their history to explain their political and artistic aims as a German music group. Faust‘s music celebrates a disruptive, avant-garde approach to rock music, influenced by dada and fluxus artists to create musical cut-ups and sound collages that blur the difference between noise and music. This methodology positions the band outside the structures of civilization, as per the framework of the Romantic hero, and reflects their conflicted disruption of German identity through the coincident political, phenomenological, and spiritual anxieties present in their music, lyrics, and performances. Faust‘s experimentation and aesthetics have influenced the ways noise has been incorporated into popular music, anticipating the development of industrial music.