Year, end of year in Australia, seeing upturn in Louisiana pop music (6)
I believe the answer is:
zydeco
'music' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'year end of year in australia seeing upturn' is the wordplay.
'year' becomes 'y'.
'end of year' becomes 'dec' (short for December, last month of the year).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'australia' becomes 'oz' (informal name for Australia).
'seeing upturn' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, letters go up).
'oz' back-to-front is 'zo'.
'y'+'dec'='ydec'
'ydec' inserted into 'zo' is 'ZYDECO'.
'in louisiana pop' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for zydeco that I've seen before include "dance music" , "Cajun music" , "Music of southern Louisiana" , "Louisiana music style" .)