The distinction does matter, because there is such a thing as gypsy folk music, and it isn't the sort of professionalized music Django was playing for non-Gypsy audiences. Gypsy folk music is heterogeneous and for the most part unrecorded and unknown to the non-Gypsy world. It also tends not to go in for the sort of soloistic flash that the gorgios want Gypsy performers to put on for them.

The Hungarian CD set "Gypsies of Csenyete" is one of the few recordings of it you can buy, from anywhere; and the Hungarian group "Kalyi Jag" has tried turning it into public performance music, but outside Hungary I can't think of anything comparable. Dragging out horse cliches about Django simply helps bury this music even deeper in obscurity.