In 1952, a local Philadelphia TV show called Bandstand started broadcasting from a studio at 46th and Market Street in West Philadelphia. Teenagers poured in every afternoon to dance on camera. By 1957, Dick Clark had taken it national — and just like that, Philadelphia became the place where America learned what music looked like.

It never stopped.

From Gamble & Huff's South Broad Street studios to a CAPA school hallway where Boyz II Men was born, from the corner of 5th and South where two kids busked for date money to a West Philly neighborhood that produced the Fresh Prince — this city has been making the world's soundtrack for over seventy years. And the best part? Almost all of it is still here. You can walk it. Stand in it. Feel it.

Here's where to go.