I'm Vexed Again/Perplexed Again . . . : An Alternative View of the Politics of Ideas

De Leon submits that using a relatively few songwriters populating the American musical theater has offered a much richer, more comprehensive tableaux of social and political ideas, ranging far beyond the limited menu presented by the NASCAR dad's favorite troubadours. He likewise submits that any number of interpretative scenarios could be presented and supported, each a function of one's favorite musical, ballad, opera, among other things; that is, whatever the "truth" might be, it is certainly a function of some form of social construction.