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.
- Paris-Amsterdam Underground
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword - David Pinder
- 1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground - Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey
- Paris-Amsterdam
- Hipsters and Counterculture
- Urban War Games
- Projections, Mobility, Visibility
- Future City
- Part 1: Projections
- 2. Metromania or the Undersides of Painting - Sophie Berrebi
- The Underneath of Paris
- The Undersides of Painting
- Underground and Avant-Garde
- 3. Mapping Utopia: Debord and Constant between Amsterdam and Paris - Andrew Hussey
- 4. Amsterdam’s Sexual Underground in the 1960s - Gert Hekma
- A sleepy town turns into a sex capital
- From the 1950s on
- Male Youth Cultures: Nozems and Provos
- Sexual Movements
- Mediatization
- Nude Shows
- The Dogmatic Turn
- Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
- Afterword
- Note
- Part 2: Mobility
- 5. Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jérusalem and Slow Training in Culture - Sudeep Dasgupta
- Culture as travel
- Detours as Delays
- Destination as Detour
- Some Terminal Points
- 6. Underground Visions: Strategies of Resistance along the Amsterdam Metro Lines - Ginette Verstraete
- Introduction
- History, Part 1: The Origins of the Amsterdam Metro
- History, Part 2: The Nieuwmarkt
- Protests and Activism in Nieuwmarkt
- Memorials in the Metro: Greetings from the Nieuwmarkt
- The Film
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7. Underground Circulation: The Beats in Paris and Beyond - Allen Hibbard
- The Beats in Paris
- Beat Circulation
- Theorizing the Underground
- Possibilities for the Underground Today
- Note
- Part 3: Visibility
- 8. (In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City - Carolyn Birdsall
- The City as Brand: City-Marketing and the Creative City
- Enchantment and Consumption within the Night-time Cityscape
- Sonic Variations, Inaudible Interventions
- 9. Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City - Joyce Goggin
- Introduction
- Historical Notes: Painting and Prostitution
- Re-Writing Heritage, Re-Branding the City
- Artists, Pimps, and Whores
- Conclusion
- 10. Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands - Anna-Louise Milne
- ‘N’entre pas sans violence dans la nuit’ – ‘Show Your Cards’
- 11. Archaeology of the Parisian Underground - Stephen W. Sawyer
- Introduction: Digging in the Underground
- From Souterrain to Underground: A Brief Archaeology
- A Guide through the Paris Underground
- Mapping the Underground
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Index
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