Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"

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Youth Radio's the Best of What's the New What? is a great end-of-year round roundup of the most interesting and provocative trends from 2008. The series includes five stories from Youth Radio's popular weekly NPR series "What's the New What?"

This series asks what new trends in youth culture are replacing old trends. In short: What's the New What?

Youth Radio's the Best of What's the New What? is a great end-of-year round roundup of the most interesting and provocative trends from 2008. The series includes five stories from Youth Radio's popular weekly NPR series "What's the New What?"

Stories Include:
Sex Without Condoms is the New Engagement Ring
Gas Prices are the New Curfew
Killing is the New Fighting
Dissonance is the New Harmony
Gay Fashion is the New Straight Fashion

This series asks what new trends in youth culture are replacing old trends. In short: What's the New What?


5 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Gay Fashion is the New Straight Fashion
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio's Mark Anthony Waters., Credit: Wilmer Tejada
Youth Radio's Mark Anthony Waters used to hear straight guys in his inner-city neighborhood whisper about his style on the bus. Now, they're copyin...

Bought by KVNF, KUOW, and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 3
Dissonance is the New Harmony
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
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Referring to music as "noise" is typically an insult, but not in Athens, Georgia where the noise music genre has a growing fan base.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
Killing is the New Fighting
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio reporter Ayesha Walker., Credit: Youth Radio
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...

Bought by PRX Remix and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
Gas Prices are the New Curfew
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
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When gas prices shot past 4 dollars a gallon this year, commentator King Anyi Howell noticed that no longer were parental curfews curtailing his fu...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Sex Without Condoms is the New Engagement Ring
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio Reporter Pendarvis Harshaw., Credit: Ayesha Walker
Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw says that for a lot of his friends, the transition from having sex with a condom to sex without, is seen as a symbo...

Bought by WMNF and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 2

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