Retelling A Legend：On the Spectacle Forming Process of Chen-Da and “Su Siang Ki” in 70’s Taipei

This thesis focuses on performances of Hengchun folksong singer Chen-Da in 70’s Taipei, to discuss the tradition forming process in modern society of Chen-Da and the tune “Su Sing Ki” with the social critical idea “spectacle”.
While infiltrating by spectacle, the relationship between people and external sphere in modern society would be based on the promotion and construction of mass media, causing the alienation of people from their self-experience. Accompanying to the transition of self-experience, the performance of Chen-Da would transform into a monotonous seeing practice much more while it was set in the modern city Taipei. Consequently, the heritage of conventional experience would be hard to approach, simultaneously Chen-Da and “Su-Siang-Ki” became the spectacular tradition.
However, to explain the forming process of tradition here, spectacle is not enough. Because of the particular social and cultural background in 70’s Taipei, the spectacle forming process of Chen-Da and “Su Sing Ki”, is also corresponded with the “nostaligia” theme, and be interweave into the particular ambition of identity and time emotion. Through interviewing the participants, and tracking back these events, we find that only to participate truly in the “retelling” progress, the meaning of tradition could be occurred continually. Thus, this spectacle forming progress tracking of Chen-Da and “Su Sing Ki”, is the de-constructional progress of spectacle at the same time.