What You Own
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"What You Own" is a powerful duet from the musical Rent in which the characters Mark and Roger confront themes of identity, purpose, and the struggle to create meaningful art in a consumer-driven world.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWork | Rent (1996 original Broadway cast recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | La Bohème (indirectly, via the musical Rent) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Jonathan Larson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBroadwayProduction | original Broadway production of Rent ⓘ |
| firstProduction | original Off-Broadway production of Rent ⓘ |
| genre |
rock musical song
ⓘ
show tune ⓘ |
| hasCharacterPerspective |
Mark’s struggle with selling out as a filmmaker
ⓘ
Roger’s struggle to write meaningful music while living with HIV ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
AIDS-era New York City arts community
ⓘ
late 20th-century American urban life ⓘ |
| hasLyricLine |
“Connection in an isolating age”
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“I don’t own emotion, I rent” ⓘ “You’re living in America at the end of the millennium” ⓘ |
| hasMotif | questioning “what you own” versus “what you are” ⓘ |
| isFrequentlyPerformedIn |
Rent cast recordings
ⓘ
Rent stage revivals ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Jonathan Larson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | voice ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
duet of self-realization for Mark and Roger
ⓘ
marks turning point in characters’ commitment to their art ⓘ |
| partOf | Rent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAct | Act II of Rent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerInStory |
Mark Cohen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roger Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionElement |
ensemble backing vocals in stage productions
ⓘ
rock-influenced instrumentation ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
ⓘ
artistic struggle ⓘ consumerism ⓘ creative integrity ⓘ identity ⓘ purpose ⓘ resistance to a consumer-driven society ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ |
| vocalType | male duet ⓘ |
| workLocationInPlot |
Alphabet City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | duet ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Broadway production of Rent