Meself: Don't know how I missed that. All apologies.

Nick: I think your reply will work fine for Meself, however, for Jack, & others' concerns, maybe not so much. The Americans treat it like "black." Culture is upper case, complexion will be lower.

When Paperback's American donkey engine was rigged for chain it had a "wildcat" sprocket however, the British one had a "gypsy." I've never seen the latter written upper case, nor heard it considered racist. AFAIK nobody knows where they got that one from. fwiw, what Bahamian & Floridian Greeks called it would have got my young mouth washed out with soap in both upper and lower case.

More to the subject, most jazz age hot jazz (Django/Grappelli &co.) wouldn't be 'Gypsy' or 'Roma' or 'Romani' or whathaveyou. You'll need to learn artists, producers and target audiences to sort things for yourself. Change any one of the three and the result with differ.