{"id":2420,"date":"2018-03-13T06:56:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2018-03-13T06:56:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:56:20","slug":"rhymes-of-change-amir-issaas-introduces-cu-students-to-multicultural-italy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2018\/03\/13\/rhymes-of-change-amir-issaas-introduces-cu-students-to-multicultural-italy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhymes of Change: Amir Issaa Introduces CU Students to Multicultural Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, Chapman Italian Studies students had the opportunity to participate in an Italian rap workshop by Amir Issaa, a rapper from Rome who is touring the United States to share his story, talent, and ideas. Amir is a child of an immigrant Egyptian father and an Italian mother. Amir&#8217;s lyrics are well-known in Italy, and he has become a point of reference for today&#8217;s Italian youth of different national family backgrounds. Amir guided students through a lesson on rhyme in Italian along with a discussion on the issues in Italy and ended with a live performance of his original songs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1290\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/IMG_2046-20sbn1q-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, Chapman Italian Studies students had the opportunity to participate in an Italian rap workshop by Amir Issaa, a rapper from Rome who is touring the United States to share his story, talent, and ideas. Amir is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2018\/03\/13\/rhymes-of-change-amir-issaas-introduces-cu-students-to-multicultural-italy-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}