The word tango is most likely of African origin and referred to the popular music and dance celebrations that slaves performed throughout the coastal regions of the Caribbean and Atlantic. The genre overlapped with milonga, candombe and Cuban habanera. During the 20th century, as urbanized samba emerged in Brazil, tango emerged as an independent dance genre. Rioplatense tango originated in the poor areas known as arrabeles, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and Montevido. The compadrito was one of the first figures par excellence to come from the arrabales; his dress and behavior mocked the elite, making himself seem like an arrogant tyrant. He mixed gaucho and immigrant characteristics and spoke Lunfardo (a dialect referring to the criminal world). Most people considered him vulgar and disreputable, but many secretly admired his provocative sensuality. The first stage of tango history is known as Guardia Vieja and lasted until 1920. During this period, tango emerged as a genre of instrumental music based on a three-part form with different sections. The Guardia Veja ensembles had a violin, a flute, a guitar and a bandoneon (an accordion-like instrument of German origin associated with tango which is also used in contemporary traditional music ensembles. It has 38 buttons in the upper registers and middle and 33 buttons in the lower register What is considered the most famous tango ever written was “La cumparsita” (“The Little Carnival Procession”) by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez in 1917. Early tangos used linked rhythms. in the habanera and milonga in double meters, but conductors began to slow the tempo and adopted quadruple meter with high accents during the 1910s. The marcato and sincopa characterize..... . middle of paper ...... popular Latin American idioms The tango artist who formed a sextet including the unusual addition of a trombone is receptive to the possibility of assimilating outside influences, because she is. fully aware of the political implications of creating and performing tango in a country controlled by globalized economic and cultural interests. . She uses standard percussion with djembe, cymbals, bongo and wood block. Possetti's "Bullanguera" is based on a milonga rhythm that was first heard on the djembe, a large African hand drum. She layers a salsa clave pattern in the percussion over the foundation of the milonga. Jazz techniques, improvised solos and sixteen bar progressions add new dimensions to the piece. Its design remains true to the roots of tango, while engaging with a sophisticated range of current popular music..