“Johnny B. Goode” is Chuck Berry’s two-and-a-half minute essay on the Machine in the Garden. For Marx, this dialectic is neatly summed up by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s encounter with industrial modernity ...

Baseball players have walk-up songs that play as they approach the batter’s box. If Cal’s newest 400-meter track and field specialist had a tune to trumpet his race, it would be Chuck Berry’s 1950s ...

Chuck Berry’s 1958 song “Johnny B. Goode” is floating in the deep reaches of space. The composition, which is a semi-autobiographical work by Berry about a guitar player living way out in the country ...