Title & Author:

Paris-Amsterdam underground : essays on cultural resistance, subversion, and diversion / edited by Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]

Description:

196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cities and Cultures

Restrictions:

This work is licensed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

Notes:
Based on conferences held in Amsterdam in 2010 and Paris in 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index.
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 Jérusalem 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.

Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

9789089645050
9089645055
9790000000000

Subject:

Counterculture Netherlands Amsterdam.
Counterculture France Paris.
Contre-culture Pays-Bas Amsterdam.
Contre-culture France Paris.
Counterculture.
France Paris.
Netherlands Amsterdam.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.

Added entries:

Lindner, Christoph, 1971- editor.
Hussey, Andrew, editor.
Hussey, Andrew editor.
Cities and cultures.

Essays on cultural resistance, subversion, and diversion

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289236
Call No.: BIB 231531
Status: Available