But isn't that true of most acts that need to be repeated, driving for example, all these acts are done in a state of neither-neither, they are just reinforced via repetition.
well sure. the point here is the false perception that African music is about "the heart", "the soul", and "nature", while it is actually largely about science, discipline, intellect.
The design of rhythms according to and for the particular speeds and proportions of the body, this is a science more developed in many African cultures than anywhere else.
Not to mention how various rhythms fit into complex symbolic and cosmological systems, in accordance with times of the year, position of the stars, etc.
The talking drums not only
sound like they are talking, but actually relay complex messages, becoming a substitute for the human voice, actually speaking the tonal languages. Imagine dancing to a rhythm which is also, simultaneously, poetry. Imagine the beat of the drums that while making you dance, is also, at the same time, telling you an epic tale during the course of a night's celebration. Language and music, word and sound, in an undifferentiated whole. The poetic, expressive power of such an experience is not even imaginable, at all fathomable, to outsiders.
The European classical tradition developed amazing harmonics, and created different kinds of beautiful experiences.
But anyone claiming that RHYTHM is just as developed in various types of European traditions as those of Africa is speaking from pure ignorance.