I was explaining

 I was explaining in the culture class this morning that there are three kinds of cultural value. 

1) The cultural object has value because a culture can be proud of it.  It is the artistically accomplished patrimony or heritage of a nation or otherwise linked-together group. 

2) Culture has value because it represents the everyday life practices of a group of people.  

3) Culture is valuable as a means of exchange, economically or otherwise.  

Flamenco employs all three of these cultural value systems.  It seems to me that fusing flamenco with other genres is a way of extending its exchange values.