Emmett G. Price

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, Price actively researches, lectures and writes about African American music with a focus on social, political, economic, cultural and religious analysis.

Price is an associate professor of music and African American studies at Northeastern University where he also serves as chair of the Department of African American Studies. Price is also 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.

Price is the author of HIP HOP Culture, executive editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Music, and editor of The Black Church, Hip Hop Culture and the Dilemma of the Generational Divide. 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 US 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 Journal of Popular Music Studies.

Price is a widely sought after keynote and public speaker. Over the past years he has served over six hundred K-12 educators as a provider of Professional Development Seminars and Training through Facing Ourselves and History and Primary Source, two award-winning nonprofits aimed at making a difference in the classroom and the community.

A professional musician, Price has performed both nationally and abroad both as a solo artist and as a sideman and is currently working with the internationally lauded poet and playwright Ed Bullins on a number of new and adapted works. Also a licensed minister, Price serves at the Greater Framingham Community Church (Framingham, MA) as 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." Price is a nationally ranked choir clinician, workshop leader and lecturer on music ministry and Christian worship.