Art

• literature
• music
• painting/drawing
• poetry
• sculpture
• theater
• use of art in society

Literature:
Most non-fiction in Lura is set on pursuit of those ever-important fifth rings. Jigo jisho journals are also heavily circulated, thanks to the printing press being recently invented. My timeline actually includes several publications, who wrote them, and what they meant to Lura.
Fiction is popular as well. There is no television, after all. :P

Music:
There is a counter-culture of youths in Shiira called the ‘third culture’. They have been popularizing music in the desert region, marrying their traditional heavy drum beats with modern strings and vocals called ‘nine echoes’. The music is usually performed within the cavernous acoustics of the ninth satrapy. The current most popular third culture band is called ‘Vocal Void’. Read the rest of this entry »