Very Good, Shimrod. Here's a more modern one:

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Viktor Vinogradov, the Soviet delegate, grim determination set on his jaw, strides in to the 1959 International Folk Music Council conference bar in the former royal palace in Bucharest.

Mihai Pop, his Romanian host, seated in an armchair reading Izvestiya, looks up, stands to attention and says "Greetings, Comrade. What's afoot?"

"Greetings Comrade delegate Pop," says Vinogradov. "What's afoot? 12 inches! Ha! Ha!...Now, y'know that speech you're going to read to the conference tomorrow about new folk...?"

"Oh gosh, rath-err!", says Pop.

"Well I have it here in my bag."

"Oh do tell what it says!" says Pop.

"Later, you buffoon! You only have to read it", snaps Vinogradov. "Now, have you been to the Maxim Gorky Collective Farm no 18 outside Stalin City?"

"Why, of course, Your Folkiness" says Pop, "There is no finer example of collectivisation in the whole of Romania. Following your most excellent instructions, workers and peasants have spontaneously set up a cultural palace there, created a folk orchestra in the national style and moved the maypole from the village square to the entrance of the people's grain silos..."

"That is good", says Vinogradov "I hear from First Secretary Dragoi that emissaries from the Folk Institute have been collecting folk songs there."

"It is so, Your Folkship," says Pop. "And in line with your most traditional instructions they are all spontaneous folk creations of the collective, portraying the new conception of labour and the people's artistic vision, thoughts and aspirations under the new social relations brought about by the liberation from capitalism...and sung in the manly and vigorous national style by the 50-piece V. I. Lenin Rolling-Stock Manufacturing Works Traditional Folk Orchestra of Moldavia."

"So, none of that archaic melancholy, I trust?" asks Vinogradov.

"No, Your Most Traditionalness," says Pop. "As per your most folkworthy instructions the people have abandoned all those elements of traditional song which are not consistent with their constant yearning for progress. The songs recorded in the collectivised field include 'As I went out one morning on my tractor', 'When the cuckoo calls me to over-achieve The Five Year Plan', 'The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh'..."

"And are they all in the oral tradition?" asks Vinogradov.

"Most assuredly, Your Folkworthiness," says Pop. "In line with your instructions, they are being handed down from generation to generation even as we speak."

"Excellent," says Vinogradov. "Now, let me introduce you to the alternate comrade delegates representing the progressive discographic companies of London and New York. I think we might make a sale here."