Dr. 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 research on bridging the generational divide. A well regarded musician, educator, speaker and consultant, Emmett 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.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Emmett 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. In addition, Emmett 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 a research fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Emmett is the author of HIP HOP Culture (ABC-CLIO, 2006), executive editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Music (Greenwood Press, 2009), and editor of The Black Church, Hip Hop Culture and the Dilemma of the Generational Divide (Scarecrow Press, 2009). 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 received great acclaim. He is the former editor-in-chief of the <strong>Journal of Popular Music Studies, the academic journal of the United States Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

Emmett is a widely sought after keynote and public speaker. Past audiences have included: Nike, Inc. (Beaverton, OR), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum (Cleveland, OH), and the American Jazz Museum (Kansas City, MO). He has been an invited featured lecturer to large bodies such as the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Inc. as well as to over a dozen colleges and universities nationwide. Over the past 5 years he has served over six hundred K-12 educators as a provider of Professional Development Seminars and Training through Facing History and Ourselves and Primary Source, two award-winning nonprofits aimed at making a difference in the classroom and the community.

A professional musician, Emmett has performed both nationally and abroad both as a solo artist and as a sideman. His compositions have been performed by the Ebenezer Baptist Church (Boston, MA), the Zamir Chorale of Boston, and numerous gospel choirs and jazz groups around the nation. Emmett is currently working with the internationally lauded poet and playwright Ed Bullins on a number of new and adapted works.

An ordained minister of the Gospel, Emmett serves at the Greater Framingham Community Church (Framingham, MA) as Associate Minister and Minister of Music and Worship. A noted expert on the music of the Black Church 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." Emmett is a nationally ranked choir clinician, workshop leader and lecturer on music ministry and Christian Worship.