Back to the Egg adopts a loose conceptual theme around the idea of a working band, and its creation coincided with a period of considerable activity for the group, which included making a return to touring and work on several television and film projects.
And somewhere in there was a big conceptual theme, maybe about nostalgia for the early digital age or for the past of machines in general.
The album was originally planned around a loose conceptual theme, about which authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter write in their book Eight Arms to Hold You: "The idea was to have a theme of a working band, getting back on the road ... or 'back to the egg' (or protective shell) of touring".
The moderate associations found between the three factors (Attitude, Disclosure and Help-seeking, and Social Distance) support the notion of a shared conceptual theme.
Particularly, the exhibition draws attention to the classical conceptual theme of the artist-as-art, adding a millennial spin to it while preserving original feminist undertones.
As the album title suggests, change – the shifting currents linking past and future – is the overall conceptual theme, most revealingly broached in those songs dealing with romantic disillusion, such as "Eventually" and the clumsy apologia "'Cause I'm a Man".
The photographic installations explored notions of time and space -- the conceptual theme driving the issue -- and the connections that thread each contributor when not pasted together in the binding of a magazine.
Transcripts were analyzed for content by conceptual themes using an iterative process [37].
We generated code lists and conceptual themes through an iterative process of discussion and review.
