African
Music in Zimbabwe 
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Joseph Matare tells in his book Music and Musical Instruments in the Life of an African Child, that..
Music is a very important part in the everyday life through the year of Africans in Zimbabwe. In African music, rhythm plays a very important role.Traditional music, forefathers played years ago, is a part of cultural heritage.
Rhythms which seem simple to an African, who has been accustomed to them since childhood, proove difficult to Europeans with their visual approach to music.
They have liberties and nuances which cannot be captured in notation. For this reason there are music examples provided.
African music is usally not written down; people learn it by watching and imitating, not by reading notations. Notations cannot render the pitches or even the rhythms accurately. For example, the aspekt of timbre, wich is ignored in European notation, may be more important than a given melody...
Quellen: 
Matare, Joseph, Music and Musical Instruments in the Life of
an African Child 1992