found:Grove music online, Aug. 10, 2006(Candombe: A dance and song genre of Uruguay. The word "candombe" has had various different but related meanings throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In the colonial era it denoted the musical practices of the black communities; from the 1930s onwards it has described phenomena associated with the llamada (drum call) of the tamboriles, while in modern times it has designated a song whose rhythm is compatible with the drummed llamada so that it can be superimposed over it. During the 1940s the term had two further meanings: the first as a form conserved by the conjuntos lubolos, black societies in the official Carnival celebrations of Montevideo (together with milongón and other Afro-Brazilian or Afro-Cuban genres); the second is associated with the "traditional", mainly white tango orchestras (especially those of the River Plate), whose repertory--particularly its "milonguero", or festive, aspect-- was readily compatible with the drummed rhythms of the llamada of the tamboriles. In the 1950s, when the tango candombe trend was in decline, a third candombe type emerged in the repertory of dance bands strongly influenced by commercial Afro-Cuban dance music. From the mid-1960s to the early 70s the candombe evolved further with the development of a fusion between the candombe of the conjuntos lubdos and of the "tropical" dance bands with influences deriving principally from jazz, but also from rock, Brazilian bossa nova and even Indian tabla drums as popularized by the Beatles.)
