Paris-Amsterdam Underground : Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion /

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 i...

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Other Authors: Hussey, Andrew (Editor), Lindner, Christoph, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Cities and cultures.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / David Pinder
  • Concepts and Practices of the Underground / Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey
  • Part 1: Projections. Metromania or the Undersides of Painting / Sophie Berrebi
  • Mapping Utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris / Andrew Hussey
  • Amsterdam's Sexual Underground in the 1960s / Gert Hekma
  • Part 2: Mobility. Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jerusalem and Slow Training in Culture / Sudeep Dasgupta
  • Underground Visions: Strategies of Resistance along the Amsterdam Metro Lines / Ginette Verstraete
  • Underground Circulation: The Beats in Paris and Beyond / Allen Hibbard
  • Part 3: Visibility. (In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City / Carolyn Birdsall
  • Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City / Joyce Goggin
  • Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands / Anna-Louise Milne
  • Archaeology of the Parisian Underground / Stephen W. Sawyer.