EVE Fiction

Caldari Music is probably split into three categories. Traditional, Contemporary, and Achuran.

Traditional Caldari music is likely very peaceful, less focused on entertainment and more on spirituality. Maybe an assortment of bells, chimes, gongs, and a few flutes or string intruments. Something you'd expect to hear playing during ceremony or shrines, some sort of meditative music. Modern counterparts may be New Age and certain ethnic styles.

Contemporary Caldari music is what you'd hear in today's clubs and sporting events. Loud music, making heavy use of electronic tones and percussion. Not much in the way of lyrics, I suspect. It's probably very commercialized, designed according to a very formulaic standard. Repetitive, yet without being too repetitive. Modern counterparts may be trance, dubstep, and electronica.

I don't have a clue how Achuran music would sound... but I would wager that their even more insular society still has a distinctive and separate form of music.

I'm sure there are many smaller genres of music in the State, thanks to globalization and cultural spread from the Federation and other Empires. But the above three are likely the major players.

I would wager that while there's the cluster-wide superstars, Nugoeihuvi and Echelon Entertainment have their own labels at least - and probably there would be some bands approved of and used by separate megacorps. Music is a powerful tool not only for entertainment, but also for setting the mood. That one time the army remembered that I actually am a reservist and called me back to maneuvers, we were changing from our "civilian" clothes to BDUs while old marching songs blared on the background. I am not a terribly nationalistic person, but damn.

This one won a competition during WW2 (Word of warning: On my browsing this version looked work safe and all, but some versions of this song have racist or otherwise pretty crazy content on the suggested videos list. Due to how YouTube works, your mileage may vary.)

So - like every other empire - we'd have the major cluster-wide music styles and some culture-specific folk and traditional styles. Amarr would have their religious music designed (during centuries if not millennia) to impress the masses and excite religious fervour. Caldari megacorps have their own branding enstrengthening corporate bond. (Probably carefully engineered as well.) Minmatar tribal music - probably again with nuances that might reveal something about the playing tribe or clan. And Gallentean pop culture, the great melting pot of cultures. Punk band playing Amarrian or Caldari traditional music with pop instruments? Highly likely. (We already know that some Gallente youth practice the Way of the Winds as a protest.)

Example of Maori music which is a major influence of Brutor + Viking (Sebiestor) and others (We don't really know who the Vherokior, Krusual, or Nefantar are based on, though Thukkers seem to be like Space Roma?):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-0A_Ay5NrI