Interview with Murray Forman and Emmett Price

(Left: Prof. Emmett G. Price III, Right: Prof. Murray Forman)

About Professor Emmett G. Price III
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.

About Professor Murray Forman
Murray Forman's main research interests are in the social uses of popular music and the critical analysis of media industries, cultural production, and communication. His work also engages with issues of media and representation in contemporary society, with particular emphasis on images and discourses pertaining to race and ethnicity and issues of youth, elders, and age in society. He is the author of "The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop" (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) and Co-editor, with Mark Anthony Neal, of "'That's the Joint!': The Hip-Hop Studies Reader" (Routledge, 2004), as well as authoring numerous articles on youth, race, popular music, television, and film. He is currently completing a book length project titled "One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Music on Television Before Elvis" (forthcoming, Duke University Press) for which he received a 2003-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.