Gypsies
Michael Winkler reviews 'Australian Gypsies: Their secret history' by Mandy Sayer
Michael Winkler
Friday, 24 November 2017
In the Australia of my childhood, the Gypsy skirt was fashionable, ABC Radio played Django Reinhardt, ‘The Gypsy Rover’ was in school songbooks, peripatetic players were called ‘Gypsy footballers’, the Gypsy Jokers were a feared bikie gang, and nefarious Gypsies were stock villains in children’s books. Gypsies – or Roma – occupied cultural terrain, but ...
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