Emmett G. Price III has quickly risen as one of the nation's leading experts on African American Music and Culture as well as cutting edge research on bridging the generational divide. A well regarded musician, educator, speaker and consultant, Dr. Price actively researches, lectures and writes about African American Music with a focus on social, political, economic, cultural and religious analysis. He is a noted print and broadcast media expert on African American Music and Culture, The Black Church, Hip Hop Culture and Youth Culture.  Dr. Price is also a widely sought after motivational speaker to youth and young professionals as well as to corporations and non profits engaging youth and young professionals.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Price received a B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and both M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, he is an associate professor of music and African American studies at Northeastern University (Boston, MA) where he also serves as chair of the Department of African American Studies.  A former research fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, Dr. Price currently is a research fellow of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, where he serves as the lead scholar on the Rhythm & Flow Initiative - a research project studying the various intersections of music and sport. Past honors include and the “African Americans Making History Today: Living Legend Award” from the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School.

Dr. Price is the executive editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Music (ABC-CLIO, 2011), author of HIP HOP Culture (ABC-CLIO, 2006) and editor of The Black Church, Hip Hop Culture and the Dilemma of the Generational Divide (Scarecrow Press, 2012). Along with numerous commissioned writings and book length chapters, his work can be found in African American Review, American Music, Ethnomusicology, International Jazz Archives Journal, GIA Quarterly: A Liturgical Music Journal, NOTES: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, the Boston Herald and the Boston Banner. His article, "What's New? The Effect of Hip-Hop Culture on Everyday English" for the U.S. Department of State's electronic journal, eJournalUSA has been translated into five languages and continues to receive great international acclaim. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the academic journal of the United States Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

Dr. Price is a widely sought after keynote and public speaker. Past audiences have included: Nike, Year Up, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Inc. and the American Jazz Museum. He has served as a guest lecturer at over 20 universities nationwide including: Harvard University, University of Maryland, Calvin College, Pennsylvania State University, University of Hartford, University of Massachusetts (Lowell and Boston) and Boston University.  Over the past 8 years he has served over 650 K-12 educators as a provider of professional development seminars and trainings as an independent consultant as well as through Facing History and Ourselves and Primary Source, two award-winning nonprofits aimed at making a difference in the classroom and the community.

An ordained minister, Dr. Price serves at the Greater Framingham Community Church (Framingham, MA) as Associate Minister and Minister of Music & Worship. A noted expert on the music of the Black Church, Christian Worship and leadership in music ministry, he is the president and founder of the Black Church Music Ministry Project (BCMMP), an organization launched in 2006 to "serve, nurture and develop spiritual leaders in music ministry." Through his work with BCMMP, Dr. Price is grooming some of the next generation’s rising leaders in music ministry.

A professional musician, Dr. Price has performed throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Paris and the United Kingdom as both a solo artist and as a sideman. As a composer and arranger he has worked with internationally lauded poet and playwright, Ed Bullins, the Greater Boston/ Cambridge John Coltrane Memorial Concert Ensemble, the Zamir Chorale of Boston and numerous gospel choirs, sacred music ensembles and jazz bands around the nation.