Paris-Amsterdam Underground : : Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion / / ed. by Christoph Lindner, Andrew Hussey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Berrebi, Sophie,; Birdsall, Carolyn,; Dasgupta, Sudeep,; Goggin, Joyce,; Hekma, Gert,; Hibbard, Allen,; Hussey, Andrew,; Lindner, Christoph,; Milne, Anna-Louise,; Pinder, David,; Sawyer, Stephen W.,; Verstraete, Ginette,
• HerausgeberIn: Hussey, Andrew,; Lindner, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Cities and Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 22 halftones

The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the "underground" as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book interrogates the countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam in the mid to late-twentieth century. Shuttling between Paris and Amsterdam, as well as between postwar avant-gardism and twenty-first century global urbanism, this interdisciplinary book seeks to create a mirroring effect over the notion of the underground as a driving force in the making of the contemporary European city.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground -- Part 1: Projections -- 2. Metromania or the Undersides of Painting -- 3. Mapping Utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris -- 4. Amsterdam's Sexual Underground in the 1960s -- Part 2: Mobility -- 5. Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jérusalem and Slow Training in Culture -- 6. Underground Visions: Strategies of Resistance along the Amsterdam Metro Lines -- 7. Underground Circulation: The Beats in Paris and Beyond -- Part 3: Visibility -- 8. (In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City -- 9. Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City -- 10. Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands -- 11. Archaeology of the Parisian Underground -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Index