Arab place for music in company (5)
I believe the answer is:
cairo
'arab place' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'music in company' is the wordplay.
'music' becomes 'air' (air is a kind of music).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'company' becomes 'co' (abbreviation).
'air' inserted within 'co' is 'CAIRO'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cairo that I've seen before include "Port upstream from the Nile delta" , "Egyptian capital" , "Al Qahira" , "Capital city on the Nile" , "African city" .)