Publications

The Finnish Folk Music Institute is the biggest publisher of folk music themed books and records in Finland. Our back catalogue spans almost 150 records and over 100 books and sheet music publications. We're also the co-publisher of the quarterly Kansanmusiikki-magazine published together with the Finnish Association of Folk Music..

Our publications include eg. instructional books on folk music instruments, sheet music books on the repertoire of Finnish folk musicians as well as folk music related studies. Our records feature the voices of special folk music instruments such as the bowed lyre "jouhikko" and the jew's harp, historical recordings of Finnish-American music as well as the imaginative products of the modern wave of folk music.

Our publications can be bought in our web shopand our store in the Folk Arts Centre. You can also enquire old editions of magazines published by the Folk Music Institute.

Don't hesitate to contact us if you're planning a publication in the field of Finnish folk music or folk dance. Let's see if your project would fit into our catalogue!

Peer Review Policy

Peer-reviewed articles published in the publications of the Folk Music Institute are evaluated by at least two experts who are independent of the publication’s editorial team. The review is conducted anonymously. Copies of the expert reviews are provided to the authors in anonymized form. The review process is documented and archived. The information to be documented and stored includes the date the manuscript was received and the date the decision regarding it was sent, the authors’ publication proposal, the names of the authors and the title of the manuscript, the names of the reviewers and their reviews, as well as the editorial decisions sent to the authors regarding publication. The archived information is not public. By agreeing to review an article or book, the reviewer is deemed to have accepted the above-described peer review practices and the documentation of the review process.

We use the peer review label of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and are committed to complying with the conditions set for its use.

Privacy Statement for the Peer Review Process of the Folk Music Institute's Publications (FI)